Watercressed comments on The Statistician's Fallacy - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 09 December 2013 04:48AM

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Comment author: Watercressed 17 December 2013 05:06:36AM 0 points [-]

Different information about part of nature is not sufficient to change an inference--the probabilities could be independent of the researcher's intentions.

Comment author: V_V 17 December 2013 06:25:28AM 0 points [-]

The posterior probability of the observed data given the hidden variable of interest is in general not independent from the intentions of the researcher who is in charge of the data generation process.