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Self-plug: Anyone who has trouble teaching Bayes's Theorem to high school students can send them to An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning, which I designed after reading all the pessimistic papers about how hard it is to get subjects to retain Bayes's Theorem for two weeks. Includes neat Java applets.

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In teaching AP statistics in high school, I have found that many students have an easier time doing a conditional probability or Bayes' Theorem problem if they put everything in terms of a total frequency of 100.

I think that this has something to do with preferring concrete to abstract, but I'm not sure.

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