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shminux comments on How confident are you in the Atomic Theory of Matter? - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: DataPacRat 19 January 2013 08:39PM

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Comment author: shminux 20 January 2013 08:22:03AM 2 points [-]

Note that probabilities like that cannot be estimated because they are at the noise level. For example, the odds are about the same that you are delusional and no one asked this question (i.e., the odds are tiny and hard to evaluate).

Comment author: DataPacRat 20 January 2013 08:25:40AM 1 point [-]

What level of confidence is high (or low) enough that you would feel means that something is within the 'noise level'?

Comment author: Pavitra 20 January 2013 01:45:44PM *  -1 points [-]

Depending on how smart I feel today, anywhere from -10 to 40 decibans.

(edit: I remember how log odds work now.)