Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on What's In A Name? - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Yvain 29 June 2009 12:54PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 June 2009 12:38:18AM 0 points [-]

You could maybe do Bayesian updates on this if you had a large enough pool of name-changers and a large enough pool of names previously investigated, but it probably wouldn't end up being "statistically significant" by journal standards.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 30 June 2009 08:26:38AM 0 points [-]

Can you expand on what sort of "statistically insignificant" Bayesian update would be a useful thing to do?