But my external level of confidence should be lower, even if the model is my only evidence, by an amount proportional to my trust in the model.
Only to the extent you didn’t trust in the statement other than because this model says it’s probably true. It could be that you already believe in the statement strongly, and so your external level of confidence should be higher than the model suggests, or the same, etc. Closer to the prior, in other words, and on strange questions intuitive priors can be quite extreme.
Only to the extent you didn’t trust in the statement other than because this model says it’s probably true. It could be that you already believe in the statement strongly, and so your external level of confidence should be higher than the model suggests, or the same, etc. Closer to the prior, in other words, and on strange questions intuitive priors can be quite extreme.