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by madhadron 2385 days ago
> I'm not even sure how a frequentist would construct a model to estimate an outcome with no observations.

The same way a Bayesian would, since it's a question about probabilities of hypothetical experiments, not about statistics. Or you go through decision theory instead of mucking about with half baked ideologies.

> being Bayesian is modelled on how humans process and contextualise decisions.

This is false.