DaFranker comments on Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists - Less Wrong

36 Post author: jsteinhardt 31 October 2012 07:03AM

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Comment author: DaFranker 31 October 2012 07:39:29PM 2 points [-]

Data point: One of our Montreal LW meetup members showed us a picture and description pulled from his Bayes stats/analysis class, and the picture shows kiosks with the hippy bayes person and the straight-suited old-and-set-in-his-ways corporate clone, along with the general idea that frequentist thinking is good for long-term verification and reliability tests, but that people who promote frequentism over bayes when both are just as good are Doing Something Wrong (AKA sneer at the other tribe).

Comment author: gwern 31 October 2012 08:34:48PM 4 points [-]

I don't think anyone needs anecdotes that Bayesian approaches are more popular than ever before or are a bona fide approach; I'm interested in the precise claim that now a majority of grad students identify as Bayesians. That is the interest.

Comment author: DaFranker 31 October 2012 09:23:39PM 0 points [-]

Ah, sorry for misunderstanding and going off on a tangent.