Fun article on Gosset, Fisher, 5% significance, etc.

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Good points. I think that Fisher's stated philosophy of "refusing" to measure things in a common currency is deeply endemic in frequentism, and is its weak point.

Nowadays, maybe because we are ourselves so steeped
in market capitalism and under the spell of the economists,
we *do* want common currencies. Bayes is of course
perfect for that. And so was Gosset.

-B.