From a Bayesian
By robertjneal
I’m a devout Bayesian and I’m a fan of the proselytizing, but I do think this book missed the mark. The two major faults of the book are (1) for some reason the author spent an entire chapter on eugenics. It did not fit the book at all. It was like you were reading a book and someone slipped a chapter in from a different book. (2) the examples used to show that Bayesian statistics are better than frequentist were unconvincing. And this come from someone who makes a living selling Bayesian statistics. If you want to say a frequentist can’t handle a particular statistics problem you need to do the work to try to solve it as a frequentist or find a devout frequentist to show you how.