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Dogger Bank: Weighing the fog of war

Historical outcomes were at one time only possibilities – but how do we distinguish probable real events from improbable ones? Niall MacKay, Chris Price and A. Jamie Wood use a naval battle of the First World War to explain how Bayesian thinking helps historians reason with the uncertainties of the past