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My point is that the model assumes that you're starting with zero knowledge about the population when you start dating, that's why you need the burn-in phase wh
by t_mann 4y ago
My point is that the model assumes that you're starting with zero knowledge about the population when you start dating, that's why you need the burn-in phase where you reject everyone to get a good estimate. In reality, I'd think you'd have a pretty decent prior for the population parameters before you even start dating.
- sean2 4y agoI'd disagree for the dating case; you know a lot about people, but you don't know what its like to spend 6 waking hours with someone every day for awhile until you try it, you don't know what the sex will be like, you don't know what being a whatever-in-law will be like. All things that have to be sampled over a period before you can build up a distribution. Plus, for the dating especially, there's a lot of "je ne sais quoi" which requires sampling and can not be polled from the population at large.