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Fallacy and controversy about base rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Isaac Levi
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. levi@columbia.edu

Abstract

Koehler's target article attempts a balanced view of the relevance of knowledge of base rates to judgments of subjective or credal probability, but he is not sensitive enough to the difference between requiring and permitting the equation of probability judgments with base rates, the interaction between precision of base rate and reference class information, and the possibility of indeterminate probability judgment.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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