Sample space

Children:

• Sample spaces are too large

  Sample spaces are often large, so it is hard to do probabilistic computations using a raw distribution over the sample space.

• Uncountable sample spaces are way too large

  We can’t define probability distributions over uncountable sample spaces by just assigning numbers to each point in the sample space.

Parents:

• Probability theory

  The logic of science; coherence relations on quantitative degrees of belief.