“What isn’t acceptable under Bayes’s theorem is to pretend that you don’t have any prior beliefs. You should work to reduce your biases, but to say you have none is a sign that you have many. To state your beliefs up front – to say “Here’s where I’m coming from”12 – is a way to operate in good faith and to recognize that you perceive reality through a subjective filter.”
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