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📣 misiti3780

What are some interesting and famous paradoxes in probability?


I'm looking for famous, non-intuitive results such as

1. Simpson's Pardox

2. The Birthday Problem

3. Monty Hall Problem

4. Potato paradox


  👤 credit_guy Accepted Answer ✓
Stein's paradox [1]. Quite well explained in the book "Computer Age Statistical Inference", available online [2]. Cute quote from that book: "The James–Stein theorem came as a rude shock to the statistical world of 1961".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%27s_example

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/CASI/



👤 rahimnathwani
Berkson's Paradox

The two envelope paradox

Check out chapter 6 of The Book of Why.