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

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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 16 September 2010 03:33:09PM *  7 points [-]

Statistically, there's nothing wrong with the null hypothesis being p=0.9. It's probably not a test you would see very often in practice because usually there is nothing interesting about p=0.9. But if you wanted to test whether or not p=0.9 for some reason - any reason, setting the null hypothesis as p=0.9 is a perfectly valid (frequentist) way of doing it.