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Do you disagree with ET Jaynes then?
by spxtr 3y ago
Do you disagree with ET Jaynes then?
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoYou'll have to be more specific: what are you asking me whether I disagree with?
- TehCorwiz 3y agoI'm pretty sure the parent comment just dunked on you by demonstrating a deep well-read understanding of the underpinnings of both logic and statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Thompson_Jaynes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Thompson_Jaynes "Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic. "
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago>> I'm pretty sure the parent comment just dunked on you Oh, sorry, I didn't realise this was a dick-waving competition.
- smolder 3y agoYou're commenting on the wrong site (or just ignoring the rules & spirit of discussion) if you thought it necessary to tell someone they got "dunked on".
- spxtr 3y agoET Jaynes has a book "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science". It's a nice book, and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on it.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoI haven't read the book. What does it say? On the matter of probability and science, I like how Karl Popper put it, although I can't find the text now so I must report it from memory. His point was that scientific hypothesis formation is an instance of inductive generalisation while probabilistic inference is a form of abductive reasoning, and so using probability to support an inductively derived hypothesis is basically supporting a guess, with another guess. Statistics of course is not the same as probability. Personally I think statistics is a bunch of hooey.