Eliezer Yudkowsky is on bloggingheads.tv with one of my favorite producers of brain-candy, the statistician Andrew Gelman. Here is Eliezer's An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem, and David Spiegelhalter's article on Bayesian statistics in Scholar pedia (which Gelman refers to favorably).
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Here's another review of Dawkins' The God Delusion(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). It's unbelievable, as if the critic hadn't actually read the book. Here's the hed/dek:
Dawkins needs to show some doubt
Scientists work in a field full of uncertainties. So how can some be so sure God doesn't exist? asks…