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Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics   This is a 2012 paper by Andrew Gelman and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi on what they view a

I've been thinking lately about what is the optimal way to organize scientific research both for individuals and for groups. My first idea:

I've been often wondering why scientific thinking seems to be so rare.  What I mean by this is dividing problems into theory and empiricism,