Phlebas comments on Log-odds (or logits) - Less Wrong Discussion
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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.