What Nate Silver Gets Wrong - an advocate of Fisher criticizes Silver for too much Bayes http://nyr.kr/WclXJG
@kdnuggets our critique was not that Silver used too much Bayes but that he oversold its relative utility. Both approaches have their uses..
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@GaryMarcus I have read Silver's book and his big emphasis was not just on Bayesian theory, but on making models simple and reliable -
@kdnuggets as we said, we agree w most, took exception only to overselling of Bayes. but intro, second half (esp ch 8) do oversell Bayes. - 2 more replies
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