orthonormal comments on Bayes' rule =/= Bayesian inference - Less Wrong

37 Post author: neq1 16 September 2010 06:34AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 17 September 2010 12:15:54AM 2 points [-]

I didn't expect I'd end up saying this, but frequentists aren't that naive either.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 17 September 2010 03:03:45PM 0 points [-]

What does a frequentist do in this situation?

Comment author: DanielLC 17 September 2010 04:33:06AM 0 points [-]

They won't use that method when it gives results that absurd, but that's still what the method says they should do.