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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 experimenta
by eanzenberg 7y ago
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.
- knzhou 7y agoI'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.