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by tialaramex 100 days ago
On the contrary it's suspicious if I happened to guess exactly right with much less data and so have the same conclusion after learning more. I suggest that the more likely reason is that I didn't learn anything at all.
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> On the contrary it's suspicious if I happened to guess exactly right with much less data and so have the same conclusion after learning more.

No it isn't? If I guess what time it is and then look and see that it's around sunset, which is evidence towards my initial guess being right, it is not "suspicious". This is just a fundamentally broken model of evidence.