XiXiDu comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

1 Post author: wedrifid 01 February 2010 06:09AM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 02 February 2010 08:22:43PM 0 points [-]

Yes, thanks to Cyan's reply, I've already figured that "it is 11 times more likely to be a diamond when it beeps" than that the beep indicates a false positive. Your reply makes it even more obvious. My whole problem was my ignorance regarding the meaning of the likelihood ratio of testing a random box opposed to the overall probability of a beep. Or in other words, I was unaware that there were actually two different questions being estimated.

Thanks everybody!

Comment author: MrHen 02 February 2010 08:26:10PM 0 points [-]

Yeah. I was confused at first so I looked it up and wrote it down to make sure I remembered it. Glad it helped. :)