Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 02 March 2010 04:17:26PM 2 points [-]

Some googling around yielded a pdf about a controversial use of Bayes in court. The controversy seems to center around using one probability distribution on both sides of the equation. Lesser complaints include mixing in a frequentist test without a good reason.

Comment author: Cyan 02 March 2010 10:10:19PM 0 points [-]

That's a great find!