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AP Photo/Eric GayAll the Prop Bets Fit to PrintFrom overtime to Madonna's hair, there are plenty of opportunities to throw your money around on Super Bowl SundayBy Bill Barnwell on January 30, 2012The Super Bowl? Vegas? That means prop bets.

I posted this earlier this week as well, so I'm not sure why it didn't show up. Subjective Probability

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Probability:  This article uses mainly the axiomatic notion of probability but touches on the subjective and empirical notions as well. 

Empirical Probability, its eggselent!!

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This would probably be an axiomatic notion of probability, as it places the approval of past presidents with the current president. If it were taken from the perspective of whether or not President Obama will be elected for a second term, though, it could be seen as subjective probability statistics. 

This is empirical because it uses data from 1200 adults in two different areas. Though it might be subjective because not everyone tells the truth about cheating at anything

Totally subjective. Fighter gambling stats are based partially on numbers, and mostly on what will make UFC the most money. If the stats were legitimate, which they're not, then it would be axiomatic (assuming they just use the discrete values of wins to losses)

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"Beau's caretakers at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn say he has a 94 percent accuracy rating..." I'd say this is an example of subjective probability.

McCreeley seems to invoke the axiomatic notion of probability, but her view is likely much more subjective.

Non-native Burmese pythons introduced to Florida 30 years ago are likely causing mammal decline in the area (the probabilities presented in the article are subjective).

I think this is empirical and a little subjective because he chose what statistics to use.

Subjective probability, however simulations can be run large numbers of times to give a more empirically subjective probability.

I know its not from the news but I couldn't resist. 50%: empirical 89%: subjective

So, so true...

This has something to do with that... http://joedullblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/usb-4th-dimension1.gif

"anyqs" I'm very interested in how exactly the poll defines a "Republican-leaning independent". Was it self-reported? Were the subjects asked about their views on certain issues, and, if so, how was a "Republican" viewpoint determined? In addition, I'm curious as to what the sample size is for this data, as well as what a rough population number would be. For registered Republicans, I feel like this would be easy to calculate, but it would be rather difficult to determine the population size for "Republican-leaning independents" depending on what method was used.

I'm not sure this is subjective or empirical because somebody might have made calculation about it.

More than 500,000 men and women between the age of 50 and 71 participated in this 10-year study that concludes that 11% of deaths in men and 16% of deaths in women could have been prevented if participants cut their red meat consumption. [The study was published 3 years ago, but it's still interesting]. Mostly empirical, though also a bit subjective.

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This is subjective probability

Subjective because the odds are made up by Las Vegas and/or Cousin Sal