Perhaps a better title would be “Bayes’ Theorem Illustrated (My Ways)”
In the first example you use shapes with colors of various sizes to illustrate the ideas visually. In the second example, you using plain rectangles of approximately the same size. If I was a visual learner, I don’t know if your post would help me much.
I think you’re on the right track in example one. You might want to use shapes that are easier to estimate the relative areas. It’s hard to tell if one triangle is twice as big as another (as measured by area), but it’s easier to do with rectangles of the same height (where you just vary the width). More importantly, I think it would help to show math with shapes. For example, I would suggest that figure 18 has P(door 2)= the orange triangle in figure 17 divided by the orange triangle plus the blue triangle from figure 17 (but where you show the division by shapes). When I teach, I sometimes do this with Venn diagrams (show division of chunks of circles and rectangles to illustrate conditional probability).
Perhaps a better title would be “Bayes’ Theorem Illustrated (My Ways)”
In the first example you use shapes with colors of various sizes to illustrate the ideas visually. In the second example, you using plain rectangles of approximately the same size. If I was a visual learner, I don’t know if your post would help me much.
I think you’re on the right track in example one. You might want to use shapes that are easier to estimate the relative areas. It’s hard to tell if one triangle is twice as big as another (as measured by area), but it’s easier to do with rectangles of the same height (where you just vary the width). More importantly, I think it would help to show math with shapes. For example, I would suggest that figure 18 has P(door 2)= the orange triangle in figure 17 divided by the orange triangle plus the blue triangle from figure 17 (but where you show the division by shapes). When I teach, I sometimes do this with Venn diagrams (show division of chunks of circles and rectangles to illustrate conditional probability).