I don’t think that statement makes sense; you seem to be mixing levels—the prior is a distribution over how the world could actually be, not over other distributions. It shouldn’t make sense to speak of your prior’s confidence in itself.
I don’t think that statement makes sense; you seem to be mixing levels—the prior is a distribution over how the world could actually be, not over other distributions. It shouldn’t make sense to speak of your prior’s confidence in itself.