Practice Reasoning About Health Risks
Apply your understanding of the rules of probability regarding conjunction and independence to avoid two common fallacies (the conjunction fallacy and the gambler’s fallacy) when reasoning about the likelihood of various outcomes in real-life situations.
Topics
- chance
- comparing probabilities
- conjunction
- conjunction rule
- conjunction fallacy
- estimating probabilities
- evaluating probability claims
- decision-making
- gambler’s fallacy
- health risks
- high school
- independent events
- likelihood
- overlapping events
- probability
- random streaks
- reasoning
- risk
- scientific reasoning
- streaks