> “ Anyway, what’s the true danger of a simple or incomplete understanding?” In practice the danger is someone not trained in statistics will copy/paste the “s

> “ Anyway, what’s the true danger of a simple or incomplete understanding?” In practice the danger is someone not trained in statistics will copy/paste the “simple” approach and generate poor chains of samples, and base a seriously incorrect MCMC calculation off their misunderstood application. If it’s clear this is just for teaching, then sure the risk is less. But it’s not usually clear.