Our brains use statistics to calculate for every decision we make

The word confidence is used both for the human feeling that a decision is correct and for the mathematical reliability of a calculated answer. Now it seems these two meanings are more similar than expected. Even though you don't know it, most of your decisions are actually based on statistics rather than intuition. The word confidence is used both for the human feeling that a decision is correct and for the mathematical reliability of a calculated answer. Now it seems these meanings are more similar than thought.