Editing Iteration Dogma

The [[Iteration Dogma]] is the belief that adapting to evidence is far superior to picking the right prior. It is commonly employed in the startup-mindset of searching for [[wikipedia:Product-market fit|Product-market fit]] where it is considered boringly true.

== Examples ==

* Searching for product-market fit is the primary example.

* Bayesian updating under prior-support, distinguishability of hypotheses (particularly truth from alternatives in the [[wikipedia:Kullback–Leibler divergence|KL divergence]] sense) 

== Where It Does Not Work ==

The iteration dogma is a bad idea to employ in fields where global convergence are not possible. e.g. finding the roots of a polynomial employing [[wikipedia:Newton's method|Newton-Raphson]] will result in slow convergence if in the wrong place.

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