taw comments on Practical rationality in surveys - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: taw 08 November 2009 02:27PM

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Comment author: taw 10 November 2009 08:44:28AM 0 points [-]

I'm confused by your remark. "5% chance of false positive" obviously means P(positive results|null hypothesis true)=5%, P(null hypothesis true|positive results) is subjective and has no particular meaningful value, so I couldn't have talked about that.