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## [How to teach probability](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/how-to-teach-probability/389)

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**Author:** [@f2harrell](https://discourse.datamethods.org/u/f2harrell)\
**Replies:** 44\
**Last updated:** [May 1, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/how-to-teach-probability/389 "2019-05-01T11:09:12Z")

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Understanding probability is key to understanding uncertainty, quantifying evidence for effects, and making decisions in the face of uncertainty. In teaching many clinicians over many years I’ve found the lack of suffic…