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Maximum likelihood means taking the outcome with the highest probability relative to everything else, correct? This isn't really desirable since the outcome with the highest probability, might still have very low absolute probability.
No, not at all, what you are talking about is called the mode of the distribution.
Why don't you look at the links in my post?