Did you mean to post this on the quotes thread? As a summary of the linked article, it’s pretty misleading.
Is the statement true? I think it’s pretty clearly true among academic scientists, which I think is all that Gelman meant, but probably the opposite is true more generally.
No, this isn’t really a “rationality quote” and shouldn’t go into the quotes thread. I posted it here because it sounded interesting to me and because it points to a glaring weakness in the Bayesian approach—it is entirely silent about hypothesis generation. The quote wasn’t meant to represent the article.
Did you mean to post this on the quotes thread? As a summary of the linked article, it’s pretty misleading.
Is the statement true? I think it’s pretty clearly true among academic scientists, which I think is all that Gelman meant, but probably the opposite is true more generally.
No, this isn’t really a “rationality quote” and shouldn’t go into the quotes thread. I posted it here because it sounded interesting to me and because it points to a glaring weakness in the Bayesian approach—it is entirely silent about hypothesis generation. The quote wasn’t meant to represent the article.