CronoDAS comments on Bayes' rule =/= Bayesian inference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 16 September 2010 07:26:22AM *  1 point [-]

This illustrates the idea that, from a Bayesian perspective, implausible claims require more evidence than plausible claims. Frequentists have no formal way of including that type of prior information.

Yeah, the best they can do is require a stricter significance level. (IIRC, the justification for the standard "statistical significance" test involves something like taking the position of maximum ignorance by assuming that the null hypothesis is 50% likely to be true and then applying Bayes's Theorem to get a posterior probability...)