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CountBayesie

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About CountBayesie

I blog about probability and statistics at http://www.countbayesie.com/

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    I've long argued that the biggest problem with orthodox NHST for A/B testing is that you actually don't care about 'significance of effect' as much as you do 'magnitude of effect'.…

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    >The type of analysis being banned is often called a frequentist analysis I find that there is a trend of associating "bad statistics" with "Frequentists Statistics" which isn't re…

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    Yes! Sorry for not being more clear in my comment. And just to be clear Jaynes is not explicitly arguing for or against the idea of ESP, though he himself does not believe he point…

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    For anyone interested in Bayesian Statistics it is worth noting that ET Jaynes (imho the arch-Bayesian) disagrees with Kahneman's idea that "people reason in a basically irrational…

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    I'm a lover of awful puns, and was actually surprised how few people I knew got it! I'm very glad you appreciate it, thanks!

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    Thanks for the catch! It should be corrected now

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