
Ep. 267 - Bernoulli's Fallacy with Aubrey Clayton
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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Is There a Uniform Priority?
Uniform priors are used in Bayesian statistics to represent ignorance. But sometimes that's just not the right prior probability to assign maybe you have some strong information about, you know, a range of some value that's more likely than another range or range that's impossible. Uniform priors might have been a pretty good description of what they knew very little. It's just the problem of trying to extend that to all other scientific realms.
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