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Oscar_Cunningham comments on Bayesian exercise - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: RolfAndreassen 21 September 2011 09:34PM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 22 September 2011 10:09:10AM 2 points [-]

Yes! Exactly right.

By the way, the idea that the if the frequency is known it is equal to the probability, is wittily known as the "Principal Principle".