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Nate Silver

“Bayes’s theorem requires us to state—explicitly—how likely we believe an event is to occur before we begin to weigh the evidence. It calls this estimate a prior belief.”

Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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