cousin_it comments on Are calibration and rational decisions mutually exclusive? (Part one) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 23 July 2009 09:22:32AM *  4 points [-]

Please provide an example where frequentists get exact answers and Bayesians get only approximations, all from the same data. This looks highly improbable to me. Or did you mean something else?

Comment author: Cyan 23 July 2009 07:14:18PM *  0 points [-]

No, this is more-or-less what I meant. I equivocate on "exact," because I regard the Bayesian answer as exactly what one actually wants, and perfect frequentist validity as a secondary consideration. To provide the example you requested, I'll have to go searching for one of the papers that set off this line of thought -- the bloody thing's not online, so it might take a while.