Bayesian
I'm a Bayesian. Back when I was at the age when math was still worth arguing over, I believed in Bayesian reasoning unconditionally. I had numerous arguments about it (mostly with fellow travelers -- I was surrounded by a filter bubble avant la lettre which, appropriately, referred to itself as the Bayesian mafia). We revered and wholeheartedly agreed with our platoon leaders, found likeminded friends at other universities who did great work, and disdained heretics who advocated despicable methods that deviated from the axioms of probability and Bayes' rule in favor of some other (thereby ad-hoc and wrong) representation of uncertainty, or who didn't accept the subjectivist interpretation of said numbers between zero and one as the One and Only Way to Represent Uncertainty (there, I capitalized it, that makes it true). So it was strange to see the recent firestorm of news about the sinking of a super-yacht named Bayesian off the coast of Sicily. It felt almost personal. O...