EHeller comments on A History of Bayes' Theorem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EHeller 20 November 2013 12:37:27AM *  1 point [-]

if I fail, it'll be because I develop an expertise and become motivated to defend the value of my own skill.

No, more like you'll spend months (or more) pushing against a research problem to make it approachable via something in a Bayesian toolbox when there was a straightforward frequentist approach sitting there all along.