Cyan comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Cyan 21 February 2010 06:35AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 February 2010 12:52:53AM 5 points [-]

I believe you and would like to know some examples for future reference.

Comment author: Cyan 22 February 2010 01:44:03AM 6 points [-]

The OP is one such -- Bayesians aren't permitted to ignore any part of the data except those which leave the likelihood unchanged. One classic example is that in some problems, a confidence interval procedure can return the whole real line. A mildly less pathological example also concerning a wacky confidence interval is here.