PhilGoetz comments on Case study: abuse of frequentist statistics - Less Wrong
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Well, I don't see the structural problems. (I don't even know what a structural problem is.)
Somebody, please write a top-level post addressing this. Stop saying "Frequentists are bad" and leaving it at that. This is a great story; but it's not valid argumentation to try to convert it into an anti-frequentist tract.
I'd love to see a top-level post where someone suggests the best and/or most realistic way for scientists to do their statistics. I'm actually rather ignorant with regards to probability theory. I got a D in second semester frequentist statistics (hard teacher + I didn't go to class or try very hard on the homework) which is indicative of how little I learned in that class. I did better in my applied statistics classes.
When is it good for scientists to do null hypothesis testing?
What specifically is the "this" you want addressed? I'm not sure what its referent is.