On Nov 3 2009 7:38 PM, gtech1 wrote:
http://climate.weather.com/articles/Statisticians-reject-global-cooli... Read more about this on Andrew Gelman's blog. Hes one that was asked to
participate and refused because they were given no context.
He's a Bayesian and believes that with no context you cannot formulate a
prior and without a prior you can't do competent analysis. Classical
statisticians don't tend to agree with that. It's a long going
fundamental debate within the profession.
The AP poll basically didn't just cherry pick data it cherry picked
statisticians.
btw, I was not trained as a Bayesian and was a believer in the Classical
approach for a very long time. Over the last 20 years or so my thinking
has been slowly moving more towards the Bayesian approach.
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