Vaniver comments on How to understand people better - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 13 October 2011 01:35:44PM 5 points [-]

It's not clear to me that prejudices are worthless evidence. It seems to me reasonable to take stereotypes as your prior and update on evidence rather than taking maxent as your prior.

If there's evidence out there I should be updating on, I'd love to hear it.