The Fallacy of the Implicitly Uniform Prior

Adolf Kettle is probably the most important scientist that no one's ever heard of. He was a Belgian scientist and sort of mid 19th century, responsible for the development of what we kind of now understand as social science. His methods involved things like the normal distribution or the bell curve as a representation of the errors in astronomical measurements. And then he started collecting massive amounts of data on people because he wanted to build what he called a social physics.