[extropy-chat] what is probability?

gts gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 15 18:23:04 UTC 2007


On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:12:46 -0500, Russell Wallace  
<russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:

> "If that's still not enough for a reliable answer, you go out and gather
> data by polling substantial numbers of people, and use the result of  
> that as your prior for further investigation."

At that point you are no longer acting in an orthodox bayesian fashion, I  
think, because you are now depending on frequentist notions to set your  
priors.

> Well then we have no disagreement ^.^

:)

-gts




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