IlyaShpitser comments on Open thread, 24-30 March 2014 - Less Wrong
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The interesting questions to me are: (a) "what is the steelman of the frequentist position?" (folks like Larry are useful here), and (b) "are there actually prominent frequentist statisticians who say stupid things?"
By (b) I mean "actually stupid under any reasonable interpretation."
Quote from the url I linked:
"Keep your identity small" -- advice familiar to a LW audience.
I guess you disagree with Larry's take: B vs F is about goals not methods. I could do Bayesian looking things while having a frequentist interpretation in mind.
In the spirit of collaborative argumentation, can we agree on the following:
We have better things to do than engage in identity politics.