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Just curious, who are the cranks you refer to?

(Not trolling, I'm honestly curious. My mental association for Bayesians is people who want to tag documents, diagnose illnesses, or similar AI tasks.)



There seems to be some sort of variant of Goodwins law surrounding Bayesian analysis. Anytime a topic anywhere touches anything related to statistics or probability chances are someone, who's total understanding of the field is a couple of misunderstood wikipedia articles, will jump in and say "Pah, you're only saying that because you're all dirty Frequentists. If only you'd use Bayesian analysis is everything would be obvious".




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