[betatim]

Exactly this. At CERN (and all of HEP elsewhere) the Bayes vs Freq wars were fought many years ago and are long over. The conclusion: when you have lots of data they converge (as they should!).

In the case that they differ you almost always find that you have very few observations. I would argue that this 'difference' is not that exciting because it must be dominated by your assumptions, not your observations. After all once you accumulate enough observations the two methods tend to converge.

Personal conclusion: if the methods disagree work on getting more data instead of fighting over which method is better.