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Oh, I got another one, mostly confined to this forum: people making up numbers for probabilities of certain events and feeling so much more Bayesian.
This only really irritates me when the person stating the estimate feels obligated to put a "p" somewhere, e.g., "I believe blah with p = 0.04" or "Blah has probability (0.05 < p < 0.1)".
This just signals a confusion of frequentist p-values and subjective-ish Bayesian prior probabilities, and indicates to me no real understanding of either of them.
Some of us do so because we have been or expect to be asked to do so, or both. Some others maybe just want to fit in, as they entirely knowingly affect.
Products of the environment, you know.