If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?

— Richard Hamming The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers (1991)

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