Tom_Talbot comments on Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective - Less Wrong
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And they transpose the conditional! If a sample is likely given the hypothesis, it does not necessarily follow that the the hypothesis is likely given the sample. This always struck me as the most egregious failure of naive significance testing.
Though the two conditional probabilities are admittedly proportional.