I can just feel the pounds dropping away!
probDot5
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Maybe… but here’s the thing: Uniforms actually ARE a very cultish thing.
I think Tiiba2 perfectly addressed this with
In general P(Category|Feature) != P(Feature|Category).
It helps to have read An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem, but the short of it is this: The majority are not in cults. The minority are in cults. The minority of non-cults may wear uniforms, and the majority of cults may wear uniforms. The majority of the minority is not necessarily greater than the minority of the majority. So taking uniforms to mean cults is kind of intuitive, but not necessarily true.
If, for instance, your stamp collecting club decides they should all wear matching t-shirts at their meetings, it doesn’t mean they’ve crossed the line into becoming a cult, just that they want to wear matching t-shirts.
I love this comment. It reminds me how some days my brain is working like a champ and I can tackle any complex programming job with ease. Other days I’m simply aware that my brain is pretending to be a much less smart person’s brain, and I should stick to more menial projects. If my job required me to be smart every day, I’d have to pay much more attention to the food / sleep / whatever combination that determines how my brain works the next morning.