Eugine_Nier comments on What Bayesianism taught me - LessWrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 August 2013 02:31:48AM 0 points [-]

The value of anecdotal evidence on a subject depends on how good the other sources are. For example, in something like medicine where something like 1 in 5 studies wind up retracted, anecdotal evidence is reasonable useful. To say nothing of the social "sciences".