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		judofyr on Feb 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: P values are not as reliable as many scientists as... > A big problem with Bayesian statistics (as I see it) it that it not always possible to have any sense of what the prior probability is. Reminds me of this quote: (These values are known as priors, which is ironic because Bayesians inevitably pull them out of their posteriors.) http://plover.net/~bonds/cultofbayes.html

cossatot on Feb 12, 2014 | [–]

If you learn about Bayes from crazy people, what is the likelihood that you will think Bayesian reasoning is always used in crazy ways?

Last week I did some Bayesian (!!) work on finding a pdf for the direction of a certain quantity. My priors were... [0,2*pi).

pcrh on Feb 12, 2014 | [–]

Thanks for that, it was entertaining to read.

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