My immediate takeaway from the strip was something like: "I'm the only one I know who's going to get the joke, and there is something cool about that."
The satisfaction that thought gives me makes me suspect I'm having a mental error, but I haven't identified it yet.
http://xkcd.com/1132/
Is this a fair representation of frequentists versus bayesians? I feel like every time the topic comes up, 'Bayesian statistics' is an applause light for me, and I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be applauding.