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Sure, I agree bad priors will give inaccurate inferences. My point is simply that to make a statement like, "an inaccurate prior generates many inaccurate infer
by spekcular 5y ago
Sure, I agree bad priors will give inaccurate inferences. My point is simply that to make a statement like, "an inaccurate prior generates many inaccurate inferences, and therefore it is garbage," one has to adopt a frequentist criterion for the quality of an estimator (like "gets good results most of the time").