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AlexSchell comments on XKCD - Frequentist vs. Bayesians - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: brilee 09 November 2012 05:25AM

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Comment author: AlexSchell 10 November 2012 03:03:01AM 2 points [-]

I agree, but notice that now you're no longer talking about the practitioners, you're talking about the doctrine. The existence of some ghost-hunting frequentists doesn't prevent the frequentist in the comic from being a straw man of actual frequentists (because they're highly atypical; cf. the existence of ghost-hunting Bayesians).