Quote of the Date

Really, there is no point in extracting a sentence here and there, go read the whole thing:

Why I don’t like Bayesian Statistics

- Andrew Gelman

Oh, alright, here’s one:

I can’t keep track of what all those Bayesians are doing nowadays–unfortunately, all sorts of people are being seduced by the promises of automatic inference through the “magic of MCMC”–but I wish they would all just stop already and get back to doing statistics the way it should be done, back in the old days when a p-value stood for something, when a confidence interval meant what it said, and statistical bias was something to eliminate, not something to embrace.


And before you panic, note the date.

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