The beginning of the article discusses common fallacious interpretations of confidence intervals (i.e. what most of us probably naively think a confidence inter

The beginning of the article discusses common fallacious interpretations of confidence intervals (i.e. what most of us probably naively think a confidence interval means, e.g. 10 ±2 95% means there is a 95% probability that the true value is between 8 and 12). The authors then go back to basics and explain what a confidence interval actually is (that, on average, experiments conducted the way this experiment was would have had a 95% chance of capturing the correct value inside the interval -- a subtle but important distinction). Then they create a neat example which shows how four different approaches to calculating confidence-interval-like-things work in practice. Then they go into technical details I couldn't be bothered reading. Finally, they suggest that bayesian "credible intervals" do a much better job of providing what people intuit a confidence interval to be. As someone trained in classic statistical methods who has not had occasion to really use Bayesian methods, one of the things I like about Bayesian approaches is that they seem much more real world and practical to me. E.g. most statistical analysis tools assume a bunch of ridiculous and impossible things (e.g. that you do not look at the data until it has all been collected; that every time you look at the data you need to add a "degree of freedom" meaning that looking at the data 10 times produces 10 increasingly less reliable results -- literally NO-ONE does this and yet it is crucial for the theory to work.) The Bayesian approach is more like "as you get data, make and refine estimates of what the data means" which is how we actually do things, and so -- everything else aside -- we aren't violating the approach's base assumptions every time we use it.