I could never really be correct because various frequentists believe various different things.
The interesting questions to me are: (a) “what is the steelman of the frequentist position?” (folks like Larry are useful here), and (b) “are there actually prominent frequentist statisticians who say stupid things?”
By (b) I mean “actually stupid under any reasonable interpretation.”
Clearly many people who identify as frequentists
Quote from the url I linked:
One thing that has harmed statistics — and harmed science — is identity statistics. By this I mean that some
people identify themselves as “Bayesians” or “Frequentists.” Once you attach a label to yourself, you have
painted yourself in a corner.
When I was a student, I took a seminar course from Art Dempster. He was the one who suggested to me that
it was silly to describe a person as being Bayesian of Frequentist. Instead, he suggested that we describe a
particular data analysis as being Bayesian of Frequentist. But we shouldn’t label a person that way.
I think Art’s advice was very wise.
“Keep your identity small”—advice familiar to a LW audience.
Perhaps we could agree on the following statement: “Probabilities such as P(hypothesis) are never needed to do
frequentist analysis.”
I guess you disagree with Larry’s take: B vs F is about goals not methods. I could do Bayesian looking things while having a frequentist interpretation in mind.
In the spirit of collaborative argumentation, can we agree on the following:
We have better things to do than engage in identity politics.
The interesting questions to me are: (a) “what is the steelman of the frequentist position?” (folks like Larry are useful here), and (b) “are there actually prominent frequentist statisticians who say stupid things?”
By (b) I mean “actually stupid under any reasonable interpretation.”
Quote from the url I linked:
“Keep your identity small”—advice familiar to a LW audience.
I guess you disagree with Larry’s take: B vs F is about goals not methods. I could do Bayesian looking things while having a frequentist interpretation in mind.
In the spirit of collaborative argumentation, can we agree on the following:
We have better things to do than engage in identity politics.