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arxiv 2502.00958 v1 pith:F3J5WEKB submitted 2025-02-02 econ.TH

Inertial Updating with General Information

classification econ.TH
keywords informationgeneralupdatingbayesiancharacterizebehaviorallyinertialnotion
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We study belief revision when information is represented by a set of probability distributions, or general information. General information extends the standard event notion while including qualitative information (A is more likely than B), interval information (A has a ten-to-twenty percent chance), and more. We behaviorally characterize Inertial Updating: the decision maker's posterior is of minimal subjective distance from her prior, given the information constraint. Further, we introduce and characterize a notion of Bayesian updating for general information and show that Bayesian agents may disagree. We also behaviorally characterize f-divergences, the class of distances consistent with Bayesian updating.

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    With qualitative AI advice and an unknown DGP, belief updates show confirmation inertia at extremes, large reaction to contradiction, and weaker intermediate moves, better fit by CR/wIU than quasi-Bayes.