#2476: Base Rate

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is standing in front of a screen that shows a bar graph with 2 bars with labels beneath. The right bar is significantly higher than the left. Cueball is holding a pointer which he points at the label of the highest bar, which has been encircled.]

Cueball: Remember, right-handed people commit 90% of all base rate errors.

Label: L R


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Sure, you can talk about per-capita adjustment, but if you want to solve the problem, it's obvious that this is the group you need to focus on.


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