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Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by BenoitEssiambre on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:30PM (#10847014)
Except that at least with Bayesian methods the prior is explicitly laid out.

Frequencist methods when they are used to make predictions and get useful information out of experiments have hidden implicit priors that bias inferences in opaque ways.

The very honest frequencists will admit that their procedures are only rejecting hypotheses so small as to have no practical utility. Others will use weird and dishonest doublespeak where they call rejecting an insignificantly small hypothesis "statistical significance".

But I suppose they do redeem themselves a bit with the wording "null hypothesis" which candidly conveys the sense of having significantly rejected _nothing_.

Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:57PM (#10847873)
If frequentism is so terrible, why has the field of statistics had so much success over the last century or so.
Re:Bayes's Theorem: What's the Big Deal? by btown on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:39AM (#10848833)
Just because something is better than nothing, doesn't mean it's optimal.