Quick post: judge bans Bayes Theorem from evidence according to the Guardian.
Bayes Theorem is a vitally important part of maths/stats, and in particular, very important for reasoning about evidence. The classic teaching example is of a test for a rare disease. If the disease affects 1/100,000 and the false positive rate is 1/10,000, and the test is 100% reliable otherwise, the probability is that a positive outcome is a false positive is 90%+. I frequently shudder at the maths/economics illiteracy in the UK. This isn't making that any better.
Amazingly, we're not even allowed to know the name of the judge or the name of the appelant.
The BBC article on the Team GB Olympic kit entertains your love this site humble correspondent. People I respect have been writing that The Powers That Be are hostile to England and the English for some time.
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