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3 Post author: CyrilDan 13 November 2013 08:40PM

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Comment author: Dan_Weinand 14 November 2013 08:22:29AM 2 points [-]

It's a quirk of the community, not an actual mistake on your part. LessWrong defines probability as Y, the statistics community defines probability as X. I would recommend lobbying the larger community to a use of the words consistent with the statistical definitions but shrug...

Comment author: CyrilDan 15 November 2013 07:11:43AM 0 points [-]

Okay, that clears up it up a lot.