dlthomas comments on Help with a (potentially Bayesian) statistics / set theory problem? - Less Wrong
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"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.
Right - thanks for the correction. Posted a correction in the main text.