orthonormal comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 19 August 2011 12:50:11AM 12 points [-]

Regarding the graphs, I assumed that they were showing artificial examples so that we could viscerally understand at a glance what the adjustment does, not that this is what the prior and evidence should look like in a real case.