I can’t speak for other Bayesians, but I prefer to use the idea of Bayesian probabilities encode “states of information” as opposed to “degrees of belief”. To me, overcoming bias means making sure your beliefs reflect the actual information available to you, so I prefer to use a phrase which directs attention to that information immediately. This isn’t my idea; it’s one of the key ideas put forward by E. T. Jaynes. To get a sense of how this works in a geometric problem similar to the Buffon needle problem, I recommend Jaynes’s paper The Well-Posed Problem.
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I can’t speak for other Bayesians, but I prefer to use the idea of Bayesian probabilities encode “states of information” as opposed to “degrees of belief”. To me, overcoming bias means making sure your beliefs reflect the actual information available to you, so I prefer to use a phrase which directs attention to that information immediately. This isn’t my idea; it’s one of the key ideas put forward by E. T. Jaynes. To get a sense of how this works in a geometric problem similar to the Buffon needle problem, I recommend Jaynes’s paper The Well-Posed Problem.