Some say that if you can’t measure something, you’re not doing science. Bayesian logic offers a way to measure things that were previously unmeasurable, allowing us to test hypotheses and predictions ...

Bayes’s core contribution, which Chivers skillfully renders into cogent prose designed to educate the lay reader, is the notion that the likelihood of an event taking place in the future depends, in ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Gerry Clarke. Sir, I beg to differ with Professor Wilfred Beckerman (Letters, October 8). The model he ...