8. This is why R not offended by statement, yet annoyed by Q's response bcs feels like arguing in 'bad faith'. Hence ppl R stop exchange.
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Sorry, I did not mean to suggest/prescribe being nicer. (I merely meant to joke that I may have not been so nice). Perhaps I miss context?
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Ohhhh gotcha
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We're on the Internet in 2017, a good prior is to assume we're all altright 4channers lol
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Those priors....
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Someone published some paper the other day that if your prior is too extreme you're basically a heuristic (I'm paraphrasing
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I Love that paper!

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(It was a preprint btw.)
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Oops, right! I stand corrected.
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The problems with the be nice argument is that the most polite black men still get shot by the police etc etc.
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Making an argument a bit less extreme could be more helpful. Shit happens but it is at the tails of a distribution.
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"I'm very interested in the tale of your distribution"
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Ugh I misspelled tail

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Tails... still interested?
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Useful (underline that) explanations need to address most cases. Tails are near outliers, they exist; they are the most dangerous cases but
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they are useless as exemplars, so they should be mostly ignored when addressing a problem in every day talk (not science o/c)
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