{"id":160083,"date":"2023-03-12T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/think-more-rationally-with-bayes-rule-steven-pinker"},"modified":"2023-03-12T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T23:23:18","slug":"think-more-rationally-with-bayes-rule-steven-pinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/think-more-rationally-with-bayes-rule-steven-pinker","title":{"rendered":"Think more rationally with Bayes\u2019 rule | Steven Pinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8vHKCrNGPhY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The formula for rational thinking explained by Harvard professor Steven Pinker.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, The war on rationality \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qdzNKQwkp-Y\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/qdzNKQwkp-Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his explanation of Bayes\u2019 theorem, cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker highlights how this type of reasoning can help us determine the degree of belief we assign to a claim based on available evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Bayes\u2019 theorem takes into account the prior probability of a claim, the likelihood of the evidence given the claim is true, and the commonness of the evidence regardless of the claim\u2019s truth.<\/p>\n<p>While Bayes\u2019 theorem can be useful for making statistical predictions, Pinker cautions that it may not always be appropriate in situations where fairness and other moral considerations are important. Therefore, it\u2019s crucial to consider when Bayes\u2019 theorem is applicable and when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 What is Bayesian thinking?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/think-more-rationally-with-bayes-rule-steven-pinker\">Continue reading \u201cThink more rationally with Bayes\u2019 rule | Steven Pinker\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formula for rational thinking explained by Harvard professor Steven Pinker. Up next, The war on rationality \u25ba https:\/\/youtu.be\/qdzNKQwkp-Y In his explanation of Bayes\u2019 theorem, cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker highlights how this type of reasoning can help us determine the degree of belief we assign to a claim based on available evidence. Bayes\u2019 theorem takes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}