ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

De Finetti's theorem

Okay kiddo, get ready for a fun explanation about de Finetti's Theorem!

So imagine you have a bag of different colored marbles. You love marbles so much that you want to know if you'll get a certain color of marble if you pick one out without looking.

Now let's say you think you have a certain chance of getting that color of marble, like 1/4. De Finetti's Theorem says that if you keep picking marbles out and recording their colors, eventually the ratio of the colors you get will be very close to the chance you thought you had of getting that color in the first place.

So if you keep picking marbles out and writing down the colors for a long time, you might end up with something like 25 red marbles, 75 blue marbles, and 100 green marbles. That's pretty close to the 1/4 chance you thought you had of getting a red marble in the first place!

De Finetti's Theorem is all about probabilities and how they relate to actual outcomes. It helps us understand how likely something is to happen based on what we think and what we observe.

Hope that made sense, kiddo! Keep on learning and exploring the world of math and probability.