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In this article William M. Briggs tells about a British Judge who Rules Against Bayes’s Theorem.
Briggs adds:
Actually, the judge did not ban Bayes’s rule: he banned unwarranted precision. He “decided that Bayes’ theorem shouldn’t again be used unless the underlying statistics are ‘firm’.” To which I again say, Amen.
