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Comment author: lukeprog 20 October 2012 04:36:47AM *  2 points [-]

I hope Nate Silver is right about this:

Recently, however, some well-respected statisticians have begun to argue that frequentist statistics should no longer be taught to undergraduates. And some professions have considered banning Fisher’s hypothesis test from their journals. In fact, if you read what’s been written in the past ten years, it’s hard to find anything that doesn’t advocate a Bayesian approach.