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Comment author: gwern 31 October 2012 07:11:07PM 2 points [-]

In fact, now that the year is 2012 the majority of new graduate students are being raised as Bayesians (at least in the U.S.) with frequentists thought of as stodgy emeritus professors stuck in their ways.

Is this actually true? Where would one get numbers on such a thing?

Comment author: jsteinhardt 31 October 2012 11:00:10PM 0 points [-]

I don't have precise numbers but this is my experience after having worked with ML groups at Cambridge, MIT, and Stanford. The next most common thing after Bayesians would be neural nets people if I had to guess (I don't know what you want to label those as). Note that as a Bayesian-leaning person I may have a biased sample.

I suspect Berkeley might be more frequentist but am unsure.

Comment author: gwern 01 November 2012 12:48:33AM 0 points [-]

I see.

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