Kangaroos, Foster’s, and E.T. Jaynes

Ahead of starting my current gig last February, I was reviewing a bit about multilevel models, and came across this fascinating footnote in Richard McElreath’s Statistical Rethinking : See Jaynes (1986) for an entertaining example concerning the beer preferences of left-handed kangaroos. There is an updated 1996 version of this paper available online. I’m not sure what it is with Bayesians and…