MichaelTurner comments on So You Think You're a Bayesian? The Natural Mode of Probabilistic Reasoning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 15 July 2010 07:46:55AM *  1 point [-]

If you said, "Well, very unlikely, obviously", what makes it so obvious to you? What's your degree of certainty about each statement in your line of reasoning? And where did those degrees of certainty come from?

Haha, a similar argument could justify numerical "degrees of tastiness" for sandwiches.