COVID-19, BAYES’ RULE, AND SIMPSON’S PARADOX
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/09/covid-19-bayes-rule-and-simpsons-paradox/ This article mainly about the applications of Bayes’ Rule in COVID-19 vaccination and its effect. There were 58% of Israelis hospitalized for COVID-19 were fully vaccinated, it seems that vaccinations are useless for protect COVID-19. However, when we explore the data by Bayes’ Rule, it may is different from our intuition. There were 515 […]
Information Cascades and the Collapse of Cooperation
The article talks about how in many communities, newcomers often select who they want to interact with based on some role-model and interact with who the role-model interact with. Their goals are to interact with the cooperators and not the cheaters. However, there are both cooperators and cheaters in the network and the newcomers cannot […]