Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence


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Dante
Dante
15 years ago

Hmm. I’ve been discussing E.C.R.E.E. with some other skeptics. I think the major pitfall is that what constitutes “extraordinary” is very subjective. Another thing if you look at Bayesian inference is the marginal probability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference P(H|E) = P(E|H)*P(H)/P(E) P(H) is called the prior probability. If this is low we would say a hypothesis is extraordinary. P(E | H) is called the conditional probability of seeing the evidence E if the hypothesis H happens to be true. If this is high the evidence is extraordinary P(E) is called the marginal probability of E: the a priori probability of witnessing the new… Read more »

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