EHeller comments on Don't You Care If It Works? - Part 1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EHeller 30 July 2015 04:51:38AM 0 points [-]

How would this affect a frequentist?

It doesn't the frequentist is already measuring with the sample distribution. That is how frequentism works.

I was mainly trying to convince you that nothing's actually wrong with having 33% false positive rate in contrived cases.

I mean it's not "wrong" but if you care about false positive rates and there is a method had has a 5% false positive rate, wouldn't you want to use that instead?

Comment author: ike 30 July 2015 05:46:33AM 0 points [-]

If for some reason low false positive rates were important, sure. If it's important enough to give up consistency.