lucienlecam

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   by lucienlecam 7y ago

   Heritability (i.e. narrow-sense heritability as typically used in most research articles) is not so clear-cut as to be split between nature and nurture. Even the GP is slightly incorrect when saying: > ...as opposed to environmental fact
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   by lucienlecam 8y ago

   But the frequentist answer is only different when the frequentist can't use common sense. If you use min(D) as the frequentist estimator, you would get a very different confidence interval, as it would have the form [min(D) - constant,
3. 3.▲
   by lucienlecam 8y ago

   In other words, the author has no mathematical examples to support the argument, and the objection is purely philosophical...
4. 4.▲
   by lucienlecam 8y ago

   This one of many Bayesian vs. frequentist blog posts where the frequentist example is presented in such bad faith or is so wrong that it's impossible to take seriously. Why is the sample mean used for the frequentist CI when it is not