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by danbruc
13 days ago
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The bet does not really matter, the central question is whether they have a fair coin or if they are trying to me in some way. Even without the magic store, I would be very suspicious of anyone approaching random people with an offer like that. So I would certainly consider it likely, that they are trying to trick me. But the probability I would assign to this, would still be rooted in some frequency, somewhere under the hood I would try to estimate the possible situations leading to such an offer and in which fraction of them I will be tricked. If I am doing a good job with that, then repeatedly being in this situation should result in me getting tricked with the probability I cooked up. If I am bad at figuring out the possible states and their probabilities, then I they will not match. |
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Calculated frequency is a point-estimate of bias. A Bayesian estimate is a distribution of belief over possible values of the bias, integrating all available information.