Comment by jora on Biases: An Introduction · 2019-08-22T03:57:29.605Z · LW · GW

Considering the fact that salespeople are seventy-five times more common as librarians, your estimates will give 7.5 more shy salespeople then shy librarians. You fell under base rate neglect bias right after you read about it, which is a very good manifestation of bias blindness.

My math was wrong