Probability vs Odds

What’s the difference? Learn it and never forget it with an easy example!

James Thorn
Towards Data Science
5 min readAug 18, 2020

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Many people think they know what a probability is, and also think they have a perfect understanding of what odds are: they are used in betting all the time.

But do they really? It is very easy to confuse these two terms.

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