The example should of course ring caution bells but at least in Bayes you can figure out why your inference is doing unreasonable things by examining each of yo

The example should of course ring caution bells but at least in Bayes you can figure out why your inference is doing unreasonable things by examining each of your assumptions. In this case it’s the prior that needs fixing. Are there alternative methods that are better than the Bayes method for this toy example?