Roe V. Wade has been overturned, and abortion is en route to handcuffs in 26 states. Social scientists, rejoice! Wait, what? Why would any social scientist in their right mind want to celebrate a degradation of human rights? Oh, that’s right-the field has been arguing for decades about whether legal...
“The old Frequentist vs. Bayesian debate” > Disclaimer #1 (Bias): I’m not a huge fan of using expert testimony to establish predictions about what will happen in the future. That said, I respect the Bayesian hustle- it’s more pragmatic and dabbles less in empirical fetishism. Though I associate frequentist methods...
Roe V. Wade has been overturned, and abortion is en route to handcuffs in 26 states. Social scientists, rejoice!
Wait, what? Why would any social scientist in their right mind want to celebrate a degradation of human rights? Oh, that’s right-the field has been arguing for decades about whether legal abortion was responsible for the late 20th century’s plummeting crime rates. This has been a knock-down drag out fight. Seriously, I ran out of words to link articles in that sentence. The Paper that started it all, Donohue and Levitt, 2000, has 788 citations.
D&L 2000 sparked a fight in the research community that continues to this day. However, I bet no one thought... (read 720 more words →)
... (read 1409 more words →)Disclaimer #1 (Bias): I’m not a huge fan of using expert testimony to establish predictions about what will happen in the future. That said, I respect the Bayesian hustle- it’s more pragmatic and dabbles less in empirical fetishism. Though I associate frequentist methods with objectivity here, I acknowledge experiment design is a subjective process and that it’s impossible for something to be well and truly “objective.”
Disclaimer #2 (Context): Establishing a dichotomy of Bayesian vs. Frequentist probability is convenient but misleading. Bayesian probability is a singular method, Frequentist probability represents an entire family of methods. There exist other approaches besides these two, such as classical probability and propensity
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