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Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by arcanus on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @04:04PM (#10846021)
> Their inability to come up with accurate priors is completely lost on many of the folks who follow this kind of thinking.

Mis-specified/faulty priors are absolutely a possible pitfall of Bayes, but Jeffreys Priors are a means to circumvent this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffreys_prior

Another thing not mentioned in the article is that Bayes DOES converge to the frequentist result in the limit of big data.

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