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Vika comments on Instinctive Frequentists, the Outside View, and de-Biasing - Less Wrong Discussion

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 September 2013 08:19PM

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Comment author: Vika 29 January 2014 03:31:12AM 0 points [-]

Downvoted for misrepresenting frequentism, but otherwise a great post. Frequentism does not prohibit assigning probabilities to single events, and approximation of probabilities using counts is not exclusive to frequentist models. The impact of presenting the questions to people using numbers vs percentages has little to do with frequentism, and much more to do with cognitive ease.