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The episode explores Bayesian statistics with expert Alex Andorra, discussing its applications and differences from frequentist statistics.

We've spent a long time bashing Bayesian epistemology on the podcast. Unfortunately, this is sometimes taken to mean that we bash all things Bayesian. But our God-fearing listeners will be pleased to learn that we do not bash all things that the Reverend Thomas Bayes stood for. Bayesian statistics, when appropriately separated from epistemology, has many things to teach us. And instead of taking our word for it, we're bringing on an expert in this field: Alex Andorra, a research scientist at Meta and host of the Learning Bayesian Statistics podcast. The Gods Smile. Check out Alex's website and the Learning Bayesian statistics podcast . We discuss 538 and election forecasting Sports analytics and why Messi is objectively the best What is Bayesian statistics? What is the difference between Bayesian and frequentist statistics? What is the allure of Bayesian statistics? Are priors best thought of as beliefs? How do critical rationalists make decisions? References Learning Bayesian Statistics: https://learnbayesstats.com/ Silver Bulletin: https://www.natesilver.net/ Vaden's blog post on decision making…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Chugg, Vaden Masrani

Guest: Alex Andorra

Topics covered

• Bayesian statistics
• epistemology
• election forecasting
• sports analytics
• decision making

Keywords

• Bayesian statistics
• epistemology
• election forecasting
• sports analytics
• decision making
• priors
• critical rationalism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, FiveThirtyEight, Silver Bulletin

Books & works: Learning Bayesian Statistics

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