Intuitively, I’d say it’s some sort of logarithm or quadratic curve—if one person tells me they say a black dog the next street over, that bumps up my belief a lot; if two people tell me it, it still increases, but not nearly as much; and so on to the point where if 2 billion people tell me that, I begin to think this is part of some cult and start lowering credence.
Intuitively, I’d say it’s some sort of logarithm or quadratic curve—if one person tells me they say a black dog the next street over, that bumps up my belief a lot; if two people tell me it, it still increases, but not nearly as much; and so on to the point where if 2 billion people tell me that, I begin to think this is part of some cult and start lowering credence.