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Re:What’s Wrong with Bayes by eanzenberg on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:44PM (#21707462)
It's strawman to always posit frequentists as unthinking blobs of meat who don't consider the credibility of the alternate hypothesis. In fact, many experimental scientists, physicists, biologists etc. made discoveries using frequentists techniques that didn't rely on boogyman notions of "want to bet the sun just burned out because you're in a closet" nonsense.
Re:What’s Wrong with Bayes by knzhou on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:55PM (#21708461)
I'm a physicist that uses frequentist statistics, and it works fine. However, it can't be denied that some fields misuse it, though precisely the failure modes I pointed out.