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Extraordinary Evidence
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Extraordinary evidence is evidence that turns an a priori highly unlikely event into an a posteriori likely event.

Blog posts

  • Extraordinary Claims ARE Extraordinary Evidence by Robin Hanson
  • Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary by Eliezer Yudkowsky

See also

  • Evidence
  • Belief update

References

  • Hanson, Robin. When Do Extraordinary Claims Give Extraordinary Evidence? George Mason University, March 2007.