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Comment by zooq_ai

2 years ago

all probabilities are conditional. Only a naive statistician will use global averages

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ben_w  2 years ago

Which is one of several reasons why you were wrong to complain about distorting "real-world probabilities" in the first place, and was also the point I was illustrating with my example.

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