A comment on an article by Andrew Gelman

What is it about?

I agree that Gelman's eclecticism makes sense since a pure Bayesian approach is difficult in practice.

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Why is it important?

Gelman's comment `Bayesian inference is a coherent mathematical theory but I don't trust it in scientific applications' is reasonable if it is translated to mean, `the pure subjective Bayesian approach is coherent but difficult to implement and the mongrel surrogate used in practice has many weaknesses'.