... After all, there does exist a strong prior that people are bringing into the analysis, but are not including in the calculations of the widths of the posterior probability distributions. Including such a highly informative prior will of course shrink the sizes of the error bars and make everything consistent. i.e., I think that the assumption needs to be explicit, that is all. Is that bias? bandwagon? or prior belief? ... Category: arXiv , Bad AstroStat , Bayesian , Stat , Uncertainty | ...