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What do you mean by P(TheScience) ?
by chickenimprint 4y ago
What do you mean by P(TheScience) ?
- mjburgess 4y agoThe confidence we have that the relevant scientific prescriptions are true.
- isitmadeofglass 4y agoThat’s an odd use of notation. Typically P(A|B) is used to denote probabilities of outcomes.
- wizzwizz4 4y agoP(A|B) denotes the probability of A, given B: out of all the "possible worlds" where B is true, in what proportion is A true? P(B) denotes the probability of B given no additional constraints: it's the same as saying P(B|true).
- mjburgess 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability
- chickenimprint 4y agoOh, prescriptions, that makes a lot more sense. As you rightly point out, science is not prescriptive, only descriptive.