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Re:The Bayesian Cringe (2021) by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:55PM (#39832736)
> But in industry, there are no reviewers serving as adversarial gatekeepers. You may present analyses to a skeptical audience, but if they disagreed with your model priors you would work with them to come up with a mutually agreeable model because you're all on the same team.

This experience may not be representative. The web is absolutely filled with anecdotes of gatekeeping and obstructionism within engineering orgs. The phrase "internal politics" comes immediately to mind.

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Re:The Bayesian Cringe (2021) by whatshisface on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:01PM (#39832815)
Internal politics have nothing to do with the content, so I think their point stands. There's no reason not to do a Bayesian analysis, if your proposal fails it will certainly be for another reason.
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