http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/18/the-probability-that-shakespeare-wrote-a-play/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:42:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/18/the-probability-that-shakespeare-wrote-a-play/comment-page-1/#comment-16276 ekzept Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:06:14 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1120#comment-16276 This is interesting and, in fact, should be more widely known. It not only informs questions like that treated elsewhere on Endeavor ("Ignorance Doesn't Change Reality"), I think it would help people in business, finance, and the general public to understand this kind of thing, especially when it comes to discussions of risk: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077151.html This is interesting and, in fact, should be more widely known. It not only informs questions like that treated elsewhere on Endeavor (”Ignorance Doesn’t Change Reality”), I think it would help people in business, finance, and the general public to understand this kind of thing, especially when it comes to discussions of risk: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077151.html

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