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No, I don't. My self-experiments have long focused on effect sizes (an emphasis which is very easy to do without disruptive changes), and I have been using BEST as a replacement for t-tests for a while, only including an occasional t-test as a safety blanket for my frequentist readers.
If non-NHST frequentism or even full Bayesianism were taught as much as NHST and as well supported by software like R, I don't think it would be much harder to use.
I can't find BEST (as a statistical test or similar...) on Google. What test do you refer to?
http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/BEST/
That'd be essentially Bayesianism with the (uninformative improper) priors (uniform for location parameters and logarithms of scale parameters) swept under the rug, right?
Not at all (I wrote a post refuting this a couple months ago but can't link it from my phone)
http://lesswrong.com/lw/f7t/beyond_bayesians_and_frequentists/ I presume.
Thanks!
I really couldn't presume to say.