The Astronomy Cast Episode 436.

Common misconceptions in probability.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, a weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we help

you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of university and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay.

Here we go.

The Director of Technology and Citizen Science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

and the Director of Cosmic Quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you?

Good, so this is like the first time for the 10 years that we've been doing this show

that I gave you a new title.

Well that's not entirely true.

As do listeners noticed that over the last couple of months we dropped the Professor

title and then just went the Director of Cosmic Quest and now I just gave you a new title.

I don't know whether I'll do it every week, it's very long, it's a mouthful.

So you want to give people the one minute version of this?

So the short version is I've been at the same institution for 10 years and I've been

now working in a new institution.

Yeah, I wanted to be surrounded by other astronomers and now I'm surrounded by other astronomers.

I'm an organization that has a female director that has a lot of people that I really respect

working there.

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