Comment by mattj
13 years ago
This is actually pretty straightforward to overcome (and one of the real strengths of the bayesian approach). Rather than using the direct counts of success for each group, add a prior belief that americans will favor baseball and non-americans will favor soccer (you can experiment to determine this number).
You can now evaluate the results conditioned on each group (american / non-american).
Or if you don't want to add in a prior specific belief about americans vs. non-americans, just keep one counter per option per continent-of-source-IP (or whatever) and the learning algorithm should work it out on its own. Of course, if you use too many bins then learning is going to take far too long.