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Comment author: jsalvatier 31 December 2010 08:44:50AM 0 points [-]

I have the strong impression that many of these problems can be avoided by using bayesian statistics and including reasonable prior information (possibly hierarchical). See Gelman on this topic. I suppose that this illustrates that prior information is especially important in more complex fields.