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cousin_it comments on Psychologist making pseudo-claim that recent works "compromise the Bayesian point of view" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: cousin_it 18 July 2011 06:22:34PM *  9 points [-]

I don't understand how such facts about humans can have any bearing on the correctness of Bayesian probability. An analogy: humans are also bad at mental arithmetic, but that doesn't mean math is wrong and we ought to replace it with something more emotional.

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