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by yummyfajitas 4777 days ago
Part of this may be due to the recent emphasis on machine learning techniques, which tend to be assumption-free...

No statistical technique is assumption free, unless it is purely descriptive.

Some of them are free of explicit assumptions known by the practitioner, but that's not the same thing. In much the same way, my code is all bug-free.