Just for Fun
Some rejected lab names:
- Braysian Reasoning Lab
- Sex, Stats, and Social Contracts
- Brase for impact
Obtusely hilarious cartoons
Some of our research involves work on how to help people understand statistics, and in the world of statistics there are two general, competing views: Bayesians and Frequentists. Frequentists generally emphasized, well, frequencies: things either happen or they don't, statistics is about collecting more frequenices of events. Bayesians emphasize degrees of confidence/belief (not frequencies!) and continuous updating of those beliefs with new information. Got it? Here is a way to check: the cartoons below are funny if you understand this arcane statistical theory fight. (Or just move on to something more entertaining)
