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Comment author: jimrandomh 29 March 2011 03:14:43PM 5 points [-]

There is another sense in which a probability estimate can be cautious: by not being too close to 0 or 1.

Comment author: Plasmon 29 March 2011 03:40:26PM 4 points [-]

It isn't caution to overestimate.

Overestimating the probability of X is just underestimating the probability of not(X).

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