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Well, what is "blue"? (900 of 1000 people say a person is funny. What is the probability the person is funny?)

• Bartweiss 9y ago
  Yeah, I think this question is underspecified. We're happily saying "not all judges are accurate, so use statistics to get an answer", but we aren't setting any actual boundary. If only 600 people said the car was blue, I'd expect blue-green or blue-grey paint, and the answer to "is it blue?" would depend on who defined blue.
  • whipoodle 9y ago
    As far as I know, color is interpreted differently between cultures, so you'd have to know how the people define "blue" (which you touched on), or how many of them even speak a language that has a word for it. A question like this has a lot of assumptions built into it. We prefer to ignore such messy details, and assume our own experience as universal, in pursuit of what we like to call "rationality".