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  1. It is not appropriate to use percentages for probabilities and this footnote could save me from being killed by my former statistics professor. However, people are used to percentages more than to probabilities ranging between 0 and 1. Moreover, in the context of the von Mises frequentist interpretations of probabilities, using percentages may be appropriate, i.e., the percentage of an event in an endless repetition of a random-generating process.

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Plöderl, M. Bayesian Advice for Gaydar-based Picking Up: Commentary on Lyons, Lynch, Brewer, and Bruno (2013). Arch Sex Behav 43, 7–9 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0178-x

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