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What does 'good', or 'probability of good, given Hitler' mean in this? Nullahnung (talk) 11:40, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The hell does any of it mean? 13:32, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, found it on Godwin's Law:
 * FORMALISING THE AD HITLERUM: For the type of argument investigated in this paper, our hypothesis concerns the goodness of a proposal given that Hitler endorsed it. From Bayes’ Theorem, we can prescribe normative predictions for how good a proposal should be perceived to be given that Hitler had endorsed it. In this work we make the simplifying assumption that proposals are either good or not good (i.e., ‘‘bad’’). For illustration purposes, we use the example proposal of a policy previously implemented by Hitler. Here we ask participants how likely they expect it is that a policy is good after they hear the claim that Hitler had implemented such a policy in the past. We deﬁne participants’ posterior probability that the policy is good, given the association with Hitler as the posterior probability, P(good|Hitler).
 * That might need to be explained and set in context in the article, though. Nullahnung (talk) 13:43, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I accidentally rolled the above back, I tried to restore it but that had already been done before I could. Proxima Centauri (talk) 18:54, 14 February 2014 (UTC)