One person I'd like to see uncanceled is Amy Cuddy. I think there's a there there with power posing that can be teased out with more subtle experimental design. We've overcorrected on reproducibility crisis and forgotten that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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The basic analysis is Taleb's black swan argument, and more sophisticated ones are possible. A general problem with bayesian epistemology is that you cannot know if the distribution you observe to form a prior is in fact typical, and if it is, must necessarily remain so for ever
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But if you go meta, isn't the fat tails black swan situation the more rare case? If x has no evidence wouldn't it be more accurate to update a bit towards absence in the general case?
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