benelliott comments on [SEQ RERUN] Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary - Less Wrong
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This a good point, 99.9% probably is too low, although I'd be a little worried to go as high as 99.9998%. I'm not sure how you got that figure anyway, if you've seen five-thousand that means Laplace's law suggests about 99.98% doesn't it? I've probably seen a similar number (maybe a bit less), and I can remember one that failed to fall downward (although it was in very high winds so perhaps I should have been able to predict it).
The other evidence probably doesn't count for a Bayes factor of as much as 100:1, since by that point a good part of the remaining probability mass is concentrated in hypotheses like "pens always fall downwards except under this one specific rare circumstance" and "I am completely insane".
I got that figure stupidly (1-1/5000), and I am chagrined. * hides under desk *
Ah, the old decimal turns into a percentage error. You reduce all of us to gibbering heaps.