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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by CrazyStat on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:55AM (#20896776)
With some caveats: the value you get for P(H|x) might be very sensitive to the priors you choose, and most people are not thoughtful enough about this.
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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by SquishyPanda23 on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:11PM (#20898816)
Yes that is true, but there is a sense in which that just makes explicit a problem that already exists.
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