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Re:Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not ju... by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:41PM (#20963714)
Probably the most common question in applied statistics is "Does X affect Y?" To answer this, you get data and do some analysis that, from the bayesian perspective, leads you to some distribution of beliefs over how X affects Y. From a non-bayesian perspective you still have some kind of uncertainty. But you still want to turn that into a yes/no, so you come up with a rule for turning that uncertainty into a deterministic yes/no. Data in, yes or no out.
Re:Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not ju... by jamesrcole on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:36PM (#20966860)
What has it being yes/no got to do with being deterministic? What definition of 'deterministic' are you using here?