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

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

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 November 2012 03:52:34AM 2 points [-]

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.