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Comment by bayeslives

Good points. The NHST thing was invented by Neyman & Pearson as a tool for decision making, not for finding the truth.95% confidence means your intervals will be not to far off, in 95% of all samples.

Perhaps this is nice fur Quality Asurance in factories. Where I do repeated measurements and where I want a simple YES or NO.

But science usually asks: "what can I learn from this specific data? I don't do 100 samples and I'm not interested in being "not to far off moist of the time". I want a best estimation based on this specific sample".

NHST does not give that answer. Bayes does.

parent bayeslives 10 years ago

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