Lecture 3: Bayes theorem and human rationality Flashcards

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What is being rational?

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sensitive to all relevant evidence in a situation and the usefulness/informativeness of that evidence when it comes to dealing with uncertainty about the judgment you’re trying to make.

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Types of probability

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Frequentists: Dice rolling type probability which is based on well defined sampling procedures
Bayesian: Single event probability which is when you update personal probability and associated with potentially informed subjective belief

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