Bayes rules in human mental processes

Here is a trully fascinating article I found recently (it's up on Slashdot too). This one's to do with psychology, but also artificial intelligence, so I thought it was appropriate: http://economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5354696 On Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/02/2343232 Funny quote from the article:

A frequentist way of doing things would reduce the risk of that happening. But by the time the frequentist had enough data to draw a conclusion, he might already be dead.