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With a prior like that, why would you even bother pretending to do the research?
by lupusreal 2y ago
With a prior like that, why would you even bother pretending to do the research?
- ants_everywhere 2y agoWell, something could count as evidence that ghosts or ESP exist, but the evidence better be really strong. A person getting 50.1% accuracy on an ESP experiment with a p-value less than some threshold doesn't cut it. But that doesn't mean the prior is insurmountable. The closing down of loopholes in Bell inequality tests is a good example of a pretty aggressive prior being overridden by increasingly compelling evidence.