Zack_M_Davis comments on Log-odds (or logits) - Less Wrong Discussion
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What's the specific benefit of base e for log-odds, though? Base e has lots of special properties that make it useful in many areas of mathematics (e^x is its own derivative, de Moivre's formula, &c.), but is this one of them? (It could be; I don't know.)
To quote Jaynes, p.91 of PT:TLoS:
So to answer your question, the only advantage of base e is that "ln" looks tidier than "log10".
Apart from being more intuitively understandable to humans, using base 10 also allows us to multiply by 10 and measure evidence in the familiar unit of decibels.