shokwave comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 19 June 2012 08:43:09PM 0 points [-]

To provide a more concrete mechanism for what you suggest:

5% is clearly a non-normalized probability. You can add up all those 5%'s, as well as whatever probability you'd apply to atheism, and then divide 5% by that sum. You now have a normalized probability that fits into a proper distribution.

Comment author: shokwave 19 June 2012 09:45:17PM 1 point [-]

Yes, this is a much clearer and more applicable technique.