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Re:Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make D... by nitrogen on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:13PM (#11633496)
Most likely definitions from the context: "correct" means producing optimal outcomes, or producing beliefs most closely aligned with objective reality. "Rational" means obtained from available data using a rational process, whether or not the data is good.

So someone with bad priors can come to bad conclusions through entirely "rational" means.

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Re:Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make D... by msandford on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:23AM (#11635415)
Totally correct. That's why reasonable people don't agree on politics at all. Group A has one set of priors, group B has another and despite them both being basically rational, the priors lead them down totally different roads as to how to "fix things"
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