dlthomas comments on Help with a (potentially Bayesian) statistics / set theory problem? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 10 November 2011 11:01:44PM 0 points [-]

"There are no priors" is not correct - there are necessarily priors. I think what you mean is "we start with no information about rankings" and so would assume perfect entropy - a 1:1 chance of either member of any pair being preferred.

Comment author: joshkaufman 10 November 2011 11:12:14PM *  1 point [-]

Right - thanks for the correction. Posted a correction in the main text.