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shminux comments on [Link] Are Children Natural Bayesians? - Less Wrong Discussion

-4 Post author: JQuinton 11 October 2012 05:05PM

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Comment author: shminux 12 October 2012 04:05:27PM 7 points [-]

Interesting, and still perfectly Bayesian. Adults have stronger priors, so their updates are not as large.

Comment author: Cyan 12 October 2012 04:52:39PM *  1 point [-]

Yup. The nature of the change in JQuinton's question was a change in the available evidence. (A quibble: this is not perfectly Bayesian, since adults ought not to treat toys in psychology experiments as exchangeable with toys encountered in the wild. I'd posit that Thinking, Fast and Slow is relevant here.)