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Yup, no prior whatsoever makes much more sense /s https://xkcd.com/1132/ https://xkcd.com/1132/

• neilkakkar 6y ago
  Haha, this is amazing! I'd use it in the post, but I fear it's a strawman of the Frequentist side.
• new2628 6y ago
  There should be a named fallacy for that, "linking to a comic" -- although I guess it falls under fallacy fallacy.
• mr_mitm 6y ago
  Reminds me of the time when the OPERA experiment claimed to have seen superluminal neutrinos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_ano... Everyone not in the collaboration basically said "I bet you didn't measure superluminal neutrinos".
• harry8 6y ago
  This comic was discussed by the author on Andrew Gelnan's blog. Gelman hated it and posted his opinion. Hyde pretty much agreed, iirc. Edit: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/11/10/16808/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2012/11/10/16808/
  • harry8 6y ago
    Randall Munroe, not Randall Hyde is xkcd. Hyde is assembly language. Brain is mush, apparently...