My Take by Alex Lo

What a maths formula says about highly polarised societies

A branch of statistics teaches us how to update our beliefs to strengthen or weaken our probabilistic confidence in their being true or not, but if you are fully committed to a belief, no new evidence will ever change your mind

Alex Lo

Published: 9:00pm, 26 Aug, 2020

Updated: 10:27pm, 26 Aug, 2020

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Alex Lo has been a Post columnist since 2012, covering major issues affecting Hong Kong and the rest of China. A journalist for 25 years, he has worked for various publications in Hong Kong and Toronto as a news reporter and editor. He has also lectured in journalism at the University of Hong Kong.