Tenoke comments on Open Thread, April 27-May 4, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tenoke 27 April 2014 09:38:34PM *  4 points [-]

I have to say, I seriously don't get the Bayesian vs Frequentist holy wars.

This is a bit of an exaggeration.

Additionally, you are only talking about the 'sets of statistical tools', where in my experience the bigger disagreement often lies in whether a person accepts that probabilities can be subjective or not; And yes - this does matter.

Comment author: Punoxysm 28 April 2014 06:35:28AM *  1 point [-]

Can you please give an example of where the possible subjectivity of probabilities matter? I mean this in earnest.

Comment author: Tenoke 28 April 2014 06:55:40AM -1 points [-]

'From my point of view the probability for X is Y, but from his point of view at the time it would've been Z'. (subjective) vs 'The Probability for X is Y' ('objective').

Honestly though, frequentists use subjective probabilities all the time and you can argue that frequentism is just as subjective as bayesinism, so even that disagreement is quite muddy.

Comment author: Punoxysm 28 April 2014 06:23:26PM 2 points [-]

Can you be more concrete? When would this matter for two people trying to share a model and make predictions of future events?