Manfred comments on Make your training useful - Less Wrong

93 Post author: AnnaSalamon 12 February 2011 02:14AM

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Comment author: Manfred 15 February 2011 01:39:57AM *  0 points [-]

Small note: If you want P(Prius is net positive), you should try P(AGW)×P(prius|AGW) + P(not AGW)×P(prius|not AGW). I.e. use the sum rule too, otherwise you end up calculating a big conditional probability instead of the total probability.