Dentin comments on How urgent is it to intuitively understand Bayesianism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dentin 09 April 2015 09:25:57PM 0 points [-]

Nod, I do the same thing. When the prior is very small (or very large), you can effectively just multiply in the odds, and when it's near 50% I generally just derate by 50%.