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4 Post author: fsopho 12 December 2011 02:17PM

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Comment author: fsopho 13 December 2011 01:20:50PM 0 points [-]

I can't believe people apply Baye's theorem when confronted to counter-evidence. What evidence do we have to believe that Bayesian probability theories describe the way we reason inductively?

Comment author: Manfred 13 December 2011 03:39:09PM 5 points [-]

Oh, if you want to model what people actually do, I agree it's much more complicated. Merely doing things correctly is quite simple by comparison.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2011 02:13:09PM 4 points [-]

It doesn't necessarily describe the way we actually reason (because of cognitive biases that effect our ability to make inferences), but it does describe the way we should reason.