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>Scientists and data analysts just want to know how to analyze their data, and this does not help them. I'm a computational biologist that uses Bayesian and Fr
by biomcgary 4y ago
>Scientists and data analysts just want to know how to analyze their data, and this does not help them.
I'm a computational biologist that uses Bayesian and Frequentist approaches depending on what I'm trying to achieve. This article was very helpful for making explicit a distinction I had not recognized before. With most of science (in my field) being done by people with Doctorates of Philosophy, I think it is reasonable to expect them to understand the underlying concepts of the math they are using. But, I'm anachronistic in wanting science to have a bit more natural philosophy rather than just "shut up and calculate" (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shut_up_and_calculate https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shut_up_and_calculate).