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Well-Calibrated Priors

July 11, 2018Original blog post

One person is amazed by something; the other, a Bayesian with well-calibrated priors, saw it coming. Why it's so hard to surprise a mathematician.

Transcript

"Wow! Can you believe this?!" "Yes." "You're no fun." "People with well-calibrated priors rarely are."

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-07-11-well-calibrated-priors/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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