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

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Comment author: Johnicholas 28 February 2010 12:24:28AM 3 points [-]

Hi. I found the paper containing the example in question - it's Bayesians sometimes cannot ignore even very implausible theories. I don't understand everything in the paper, but it seems like they've anticipated your objection and have another example which explicitly includes a "Something else" case.