Comment by Trasmatta

4 years ago

Let's say somebody makes a prediction that something will happen, and it doesn't. You could evaluate the prediction differently if they gave it a 55% chance of happening vs a 95% chance.

Over many repeated experiments that might provide useful.

But what if I predict with 100% certainty heads, and the coin comes up heads. Did we learn anything "useful" about my prediction?

  • This thread is full of many predictions. Some users have many in the same comment, even!

    So we are indeed talking about tens or hundreds of them, not just a single one.