My Rational Pony

My Rational Pony is a fanmade comic series devoted to the popularizing scientific ideas in the following fields: rationality, probability theory, statistics and cognitive science. The comic series uses four-panes structure (4koma).

Plot
The protagonist, young unicorn mare named Dispersion came to the Ponyville from the Canterlot. She decided to observe ponies who live simpler life than in the capital and are more open to other ponies. The reader can conclude that she is familiar with different areas of science. And she tries to help ponies around her with practical advices.

Each issue tells a short story about some fallacy, cognitive bias, thinking error or similar things. There are some examples of cognitive biases shown in comic series: anchoring, gambler's fallacy, hindsight bias, illusory correlation, halo effect. Except the first issue, which is introductory one and describes arriving into Poniville. Some issues share the same location, some issues continue the plot from previous ones. So the reading from the first issue in succession is recommended.



Many canon ponies appears in the series, three of the Main 6 have been seen so far: Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. And many background ponies, including popular characters like Derpy and Lyra.

The comic series is published in two languages, English and Russian.