http://nyr.kr/XFRrWE Bayes and classical converge when no consensus about prior. So why is classical better? Oh, it isn't.
@scott_rollins We didn't say classical was "better"; we said Silver was free to be Bayesian, as long as he didn't make it sound like magic.
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@GaryMarcus Indeed, not magic. But formal use of prior info can be sig. different (no pun) from hypothesis tests applied by most scientists. -
@scott_rollins true that. IF your priors are good.
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