All these examples (in the article and in the comments here) shatter my mind. I don't find it intuitive and even after reading the explanations I feel like there's something I'm not getting. I'd attempt a marathon to be conversational in probability theory.
Probability is incredibly non-intuitive! If you're willing to run a marathon to become more conversant in it, spend the ~4-5 hours to run marathon on this course: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/home
