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Bounds on the probability of radically different opinions. (English) Zbl 07204036
Summary: We establish bounds on the probability that two different agents, who share an initial opinion expressed as a probability distribution on an abstract probability space, given two different sources of information, may come to radically different opinions regarding the conditional probability of the same event.
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 6e+16 Inequalities; stochastic orderings
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