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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 13 August 2013 10:23:47PM 0 points [-]

If you are actually going to analyze data and use bayesian methods, you would end up with a posterior distribution (not simply a single probability).

Yes, the importance of thinking in terms of distributions instead of individual probabilities is another valuable lesson of "pop" Bayesianism.