Let’s say that we observe a person with an IQ of 125, as we did in the lecture. Which way should the posterior distribution, after our Bayesian update, shift?

 
 
 
 
 

That’s right, the posterior should shift right to account for seeing data that was larger than the mean that my prior had

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