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I didn't wish to bring in Bayesian approaches here so as to keep it simple. You are correct in your assertion about likeliness given a priori intuition, and I agree with the linking.

But, there is a stark contrast between leveraging prior information to strengthen your estimates and stating that prior information serves as evidence or correlates with outcomes, which was my original assertion.

Either way, I'm a big fan of leveraging common sense (viz Bayesian approaches) so I can't disagree.




If prior information didn't correlate with outcomes then it would provide no value and shouldn't be used.




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