nshepperd comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: nshepperd 07 November 2014 01:53:40AM 1 point [-]

Um, representing a number between 0 and 1 is not the same as being a number between 0 and 1. The representation of p = 3/8 as odds = 3/5 ("5 to 3 against") is useful in practice, for example because bayes' rule reduces to plain multiplication for odds ratios.