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> But with a frequentist interpretation we have to imagine a large number of parallel universes where everything remains the same except for the mass of Saturn.
by roenxi 1y ago
> But with a frequentist interpretation we have to imagine a large number of parallel universes where everything remains the same except for the mass of Saturn. That's overly prescriptive of what probability means.
That isn't much of an argument to the mathematicians. Nobody ever came up with a compelling explanation for what -1 sheeps look like and yet negative numbers turned out to be extremely practical. If it is absurd and provably works then the math community can roll with that.
- kccqzy 1y agoIt turns out -1 sheep is well defined: we use numbers to represent both absolute quantity and relative difference. A sheep died today, therefore the relative difference between today and yesterday is -1 sheep. Math people prefer to generalize. But with frequentism, it is not possible to generalize because "frequency" is baked into its very name. Indeed you can imagine Bayesian statistics as the generalization of frequentism.