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by RosanaAnaDana 1418 days ago
it may not be a personally acceptable, but there is a real world divide where a large subset of people pretty much only accept frequentism. This is often the same group publishing under powered, low n, studies.

The biggest issue with frequentism is the assumptions. I can't rattle them off like I used to be able to, but almost every real world scenario where statistics are useful are going to violate some of them, and yet frequentists will simply carry on.

It's really a cultural issue around 'correctness', and frequentism is often reduced to an appeal to authority.