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Comment author: jbay 14 January 2016 07:22:26AM 0 points [-]

You're welcome! And I'm sorry if I went a little overboard. I didn't mean it to sound confrontational.

Comment author: isionous 14 January 2016 02:48:36PM 0 points [-]

sorry if I went a little overboard. I didn't mean it to sound confrontational.

You didn't. I appreciated your response. Gave me a lot to think about.

I still think there is some value to my strategy, especially if you don't want to (or it would be unfeasible) to give full probability distribution for related events (ex: all the possible outcomes of an election).