Eliezer Yudkowsky is on bloggingheads.tv with one of my favorite producers of brain-candy, the statistician Andrew Gelman. Here is Eliezer's An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem, and David Spiegelhalter's article on Bayesian statistics in Scholar pedia (which Gelman refers to favorably).
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