Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

revise one's priors

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English

Syllables: re-vise one's pri-ors
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of update one's priors.

Example Sentences

"If a rationalist wants to pay you a big compliment, she might tell you that you have caused her to "revise her priors"—that is, to alter some of her well-justified prior assumptions."
"We can follow Bayesian decision theorists and dub what is happening 'revising your priors', or we can think of it as simply an increased tolerance for the side-eye you get when advancing your new views."

Inflected Forms

revises one's priors (present, singular) revising one's priors (participle, present) revised one's priors (participle, past) revised one's priors (past)

Synonyms

update one's priors

Questions

What does revise one's priors mean?: Synonym of update one's priors.

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