The Clickbayes Factor

Language Log 2018-06-02

Summary:

Among many other applications, this hypothesis (from the most recent xkcd) may finally offer a quantitative explanation for the generally poor quality of language-related articles in Science and Nature: Mouseover title: "When comparing hypotheses with Bayesian methods, the similar 'clickbayes factor' can account for some harder-to-quantify priors." (Though in the case of Science and Nature, […]

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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=38543

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

06/02/2018, 12:18

Date published:

06/02/2018, 07:44