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by trendia 3565 days ago
I was converting her text into math-ish notation. She's saying that

P(SAT Score > 700 | 1970) > P(SAT Score > 700 | 1980)

is inaccurate, and that we should instead use:

P(SAT Score > 700 | cohort, 1970) ~ P(SAT Score > 700 | cohort, 1980)