> Bayesians claim that their methods can help scientists overcome confirmation bias The claim isn't that Bayesianism somehow prevents biases. Using a Bayesian

> Bayesians claim that their methods can help scientists overcome confirmation bias The claim isn't that Bayesianism somehow prevents biases. Using a Bayesian approach is important in science because frequentism answers the wrong question[1]. Many scientists operate as if the confidence interval is a Bayesian credible region, but it demonstrably is not ... I think the reason this mistake is so common is that in many simple cases ... the confidence interval and the credible region happen to coincide. Frequentism, in this case, correctly answers the question you ask, but only because of the happy accident that Bayesianism gives the same result for that problem. [1] http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bayesianism-3-confidence-credibility/ http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/12/frequentism-and-bay... (I'm referencing part 3 for the discussion of why frequentism is inappropriate in science, but I recommend reading the series from the beginning)