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Ep. 267 - Bernoulli's Fallacy with Aubrey Clayton

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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Is There an Argument for Not Including the Priors?

With a sufficient amount of data, it doesn't matter too much where you start from in terms of your priors. That is actually oftentimes in a weird way, a kind of defense that frequentist statisticians use for not including the priors. The data should speak for itself and if we have enough data, all priors will lead to the same place.

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