I’m wondering about the build up to becoming a Bayesian. Do you think it’s necessary for a person to understand Traditional Rationality as a mode of thinking before they can appreciate Bayes?
Intuitively, I would suspect that an understanding and even appreciation of ol’ fashioned either/or thinking is a necessary foundation for probabilities.
Sorry if this is out of left field. My wife just left for work—she’s a pre-school teacher—and I was thinking of how the lesson might be applied to her students (who are admittedly far too young for this sort of thing just yet.)
Eliezer,
I’m wondering about the build up to becoming a Bayesian. Do you think it’s necessary for a person to understand Traditional Rationality as a mode of thinking before they can appreciate Bayes?
Intuitively, I would suspect that an understanding and even appreciation of ol’ fashioned either/or thinking is a necessary foundation for probabilities.
Sorry if this is out of left field. My wife just left for work—she’s a pre-school teacher—and I was thinking of how the lesson might be applied to her students (who are admittedly far too young for this sort of thing just yet.)