XKCD - Frequentist vs. Bayesians

brilee

Is this a fair representation of frequentists versus bayesians? I feel like every time the topic comes up, 'Bayesian statistics' is an applause light for me, and I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be applauding.

http://xkcd.com/1132/

I poked around, but couldn't find anything where Mayo talked about Cox's Theorem and it's premises. Did you have something particular in mind?

Ah, found it:

We know, infer, accept, and detach from evidence, all kinds of claims without any inclination to add an additional quantity such as a degree of probability or belief arrived at via, and obeying, the formal probability calculus.

2Cyan14y

As far as I know, she is not familiar with Cox's Theorem at all, nor does she explicitly address the premise in question. I've been following her blog from the start, and I tried to get her to read about Cox's theorem two or three times. I stopped after I read a post which made it clear to me that she thinks that encoding the plausibility of a claim with a single real number is not necessary -- not useful, even -- to construct an account of how science uses data to provide a warrant for a scientific claim. Unfortunately I don't remember when I read the post...

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