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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 September 2015 09:12:34AM 0 points [-]

Before asking that question it's useful to ask why one wants to know priors and what one means with the term. A person with arachnophobia has one a system I level a prior about spiders being dangerous but often doesn't have that one a system II level for small spiders.