See these blog posts: http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/is-bayesian-inference-a-religion/ http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/is-bayesian

See these blog posts: http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/is-bayesian-inference-a-religion/ http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/is-bayesian-in... http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/aaronson-colt-bayesians-and-frequentists/ http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/aaronson-colt-... The first is discussing whether people treat Bayesian stats as a religion. The second includes a quote from someone in the frequentist religion (you can tell because they make a jibe about the "Bayesian religion"). So there are people on both sides, thankfully dwindling in number, who really do get their pants in a twist about the formalism one chooses for doing stats. Note that the author of the OP is not one of them, as he lays out in the first sentence of his post.