RE: Teaching Bayesian inference in 2 hours

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 16:19:35 MST


Damien Sullivan wrote:
> Longish, but can be summarized as saying people understand
> frequencies better than probabilities. Higher immediate training
> effect, and much higher stability (i.e. they can still solve problems
> 15 weeks later.)
>
>
http://www.apa.org/journals/xge/press_releases/september_2001/xge1303380.htm
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> So, how about that Bayesian Society? :)

### This is very interesting - I have always translated Bayesian problems
into natural frequencies before trying to plug the data into Bayes' rule.

Rafal



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