Bayesian statistics is a fairly sensible approach to certain types of statistical problems, so I'm not sure why its proponents always seem to talk about it as if they're pushing some new religious movement with a lot of nudity, or Amway.
In my first stats lecture at university the lecturer informed us we would not learn about Bayesian statistics and if we'd wanted to do that we should have gone to York or something.
Why York in particular? I mean, was the subtext "York, which is our ancient enemy" or "York, which everyone knows is a grossly inferior university" or what?
