Question

What is your 95% credible interval for the number of people who will be alive in the year 3000 CE (including digital people)? Explain your reasoning by giving a roughly one-sentence justification for each important step of your reasoning.

A 95% credible interval means that you believe there is a 95% chance that thetrue value will fall within your interval. If I were 95% confident that the number of books in a library was between 100 and 500, then my 95% credible interval would be 100-500.

Answer 1

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Explanation:

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