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Very much agree. I'd also prefer not to encourage referring to people as "a Bayesian" or "a frequentist", as though it's a hard philosophical preference, a bin
by mjw 14y ago
Very much agree.
I'd also prefer not to encourage referring to people as "a Bayesian" or "a frequentist", as though it's a hard philosophical preference, a binary choice one has to make.
I realise there are historical reasons for this, but really guys, they're both tools. Know the pros and cons and pick the right one for the job; neither is uniformly better.
Which framework you use can be a fairly subtle decision sometimes, requiring you to think fairly deeply about what you really want to get out of the analysis, what assumptions you're comfortable making, what kind of interpretation it would be most useful to be able to place on the results. But it's not just an arbitrary choice that you can leave to aesthetic or philosophical preference.