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

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Comment author: Soki 17 July 2010 05:31:36PM *  0 points [-]

I would not say that this person replaced "and" by "or".
I guess they considered the statement "Lisa is a bank teller and a feminist" to be "50%" true if Lisa turns out to be a feminist but not a bank teller.

The formula used would be something like P(AB)=1/2*(P(A)+P(B))