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by sillymath3 1120 days ago
When there is a small amount of information the variance of any estimation is very big and this explains what happens in that example. Overfitting implies a different behavior in training and in test and this is related to a big variance in the estimation of the error. So small amount of information implies that any model suffer overfitting and big variance, so is a general result not related especifically with Bayes.