Re: probability vs. statistics (was Re: Model of induction)

Posted by gepr on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Model-of-induction-tp7588431p7588477.html


Well, my question hasn't been addressed satisfactorily.  But I sincerely appreciate all the different ways everyone has tried to talk about it.  My question is about language, not math or statistics.  I'm adept enough at those.  What I'm having trouble with in the argument (the guy's name is Steve, btw) is my inability to communicate the measure theory conception of probability theory in plain English.  (He's not a mathematician, either.)

I'm especially appreciative of what you, Eric, and Grant have laid out from the practical "just get 'er done" perspective.  The reason my initial (failed) joke about not understanding what statistics _is_, but claiming to understand what probability theory _is_, was a joke, is because both are so heavily applied and so lightly ontological.  Were I able to tell the joke so that Steve saw the Platonic vs. constructivist, noun vs. verb, (false) dichotomy implied, then I wouldn't find myself having to explain it.  I would have avoided the need to make the Platonic view explicit ... which would have been good because I'm not a Platonist.

On 12/14/2016 05:05 PM, Robert Wall wrote:
> Somehow, I still feel I am missing something. Maybe you can figure it out, but it may not be all that important, and your question may have already been addressed satisfactorily by the other responses posted to the thread.


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