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by reitanqild 2908 days ago
> Probability is far from clear. Very briefly, there are two main camps:

Isn't this a bit like saying there are two main camps when it comes to coins:

1. "heads"

2. and "tails"

?

At least to me it felt like the different forms of statistics where only different techniques.

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I don't even understand how the frequentist view is a valid alternative. It always seemed to me like either you are honest about your priors, and use Bayesian logic to take them into account, or you sweep it under the rug. Lying to yourself always produces bad results, is my overriding heuristic. But I'm not good at math.
As far as we know, there is no underlying theory of probability for them to be techniques of. So maybe they are equivalent in some sense, but on the face of it, they are separate ideas.