Liron comments on Frequentist Statistics are Frequently Subjective - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2009 08:22PM

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Comment author: Tom_Talbot 05 December 2009 12:39:28AM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: Liron 05 December 2009 01:13:31AM 0 points [-]

Though the two conditional probabilities are admittedly proportional.