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by codesushi42 2571 days ago
I would argue that the problem with frequentist statistics is that it aligns with humans' flawed intuition of how randomness works. People are inherently obsessed with finding patterns to support their hypotheses.

The problem is that what we perceive as random and extremely unlikely events are in fact much more probable than what we estimate from using Gaussian methods. And the frequentist approach helps to create this distortion by ignoring black swans.

Here's a great video demonstrating how people tend to misunderstand randomness: https://youtu.be/tP-Ipsat90c