“… the basis of science [is that] you have an intuition which may be based on an anecdote. This becomes a hypothesis. If you encounter more evidence in favour of your hypothesis, you raise your internal probability that the hypothesis is true. If you encounter evidence the other way, you are willing to decrease your internal probability also.
I find it slightly weird how many [people] associate ‘SCIENCE’ with classical statistics. Science actually doesn’t equal experiments. Science is based on evidence, and experiments are just one (good!) way of receiving evidence.
(Disclaimer, my PhD supervisor was a Bayesian whose PhD was in Philosophy of Science.)”
– rukubites (Reddit)
Posted on Friday October 22nd
