The Clickbayes Factor
Language Log 2018-06-02
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, the test subjects would need to be limited to something like "readers of interest to biomedical device and reagent advertisers".)