Comment on XKCD - Frequentist vs. Bayesians

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:52:34 GMT

I know a bunch of scientists who learned a ton of canned tricks and take the (frequentist) statisticians' word on how likely associations are... and the statisticians never bothered to ask how a priori likely these associations were.

If this is a straw man, it is one that has regrettably been instantiated over and over again in real life.

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