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Re:Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012) by clircle on Sunday November 19, 2017 @07:39PM (#15736901)
I suppose you aren't talking about Andrew Gelman... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/upshot/the-er...
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Re:Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012) by folksinger on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:06AM (#15740345)
You mean the same Andrew Gelman who did not predict the election of Trump and took the time to reflect on the issues with polling methodology?

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/12/08/19-things-learned-2016-el...

I'll have to write another poem about pithy rebuttals that cherry-pick a counter-narrative!

Now, what rhymes with anecdotal...

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