Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probabi… - Dennis Lindley

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Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.

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Dennis Victor Lindley (July 25, 1923 – December 14, 2013) was a British statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics.

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