“Priors”

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   julian

   November 18, 2011 at 3:24 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Umm… Yeah I’ll take a punch to the dick. It generally doesn’t hurt much so long as it’s just the dick and arguing with drunken Yankee fans has never proven very helpful…so,um, yeah.

   Give me sec.

   ….

   Ok, I’m ready.

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   tort

   November 18, 2011 at 3:25 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   I know a Matt Prior, does that count?

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   Noodle

   November 18, 2011 at 3:29 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Yes, every Bayesian statistician I know. They talk about priors all the time. Why do you ask?

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   Janne

   November 18, 2011 at 3:59 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   You’ll have a lot of punching to do in any statistics department, that’s for sure*.

   * How sure? Just ask the statisticians. You might want to do it before you punch them though; they may not be too helpful afterwards.

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   ianqui

   November 18, 2011 at 4:03 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   I’m with Noodle and Janne. Since I’m now working with a Bayesian statistician, the noun “prior” has come out of my mouth a fair number of times. But I’m not a dood, so maybe you aren’t referring to me.

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   ianqui

   November 18, 2011 at 4:04 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Of course, I’m a dumbasse for mistyping my own blog URL. Oh well. Maybe I deserve that punch, though I don’t have a dicke to be a target.

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   Duke

   November 18, 2011 at 5:27 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   What else would you call an abbot’s assistant?

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   Chebag

   November 18, 2011 at 5:44 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   You are such a sad, sad, hateful little man. And so violent!

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   anon

   November 18, 2011 at 8:28 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Yeap!

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    csrster

    November 18, 2011 at 11:45 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    He’s right. Whatever the merits or demerits of the Bayesian approach may be, its proponents are, to a dood, bellends.

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    Justicar

    November 18, 2011 at 3:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Is there any fucken d00d on earth who has ever used the word “prior” as a noun who doesn’t deserve a massive punch right in the motherfucken dicke?

    No.

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    Phil Giordana, FCD, aka Schroedinger's Dog

    November 18, 2011 at 4:20 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    “Is there any fucken d00d on earth who has ever used the word “prior” as a noun who doesn’t deserve a massive punch right in the motherfucken dicke?”

    NO!

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    Pramod

    November 18, 2011 at 4:29 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    @Chebag: what makes you think he is sad and/or hateful? If you follow CPP in the academic blogging community, you’ll know he’s actually a nice helpful guy, but with an unfortunate tendency to unconventional spelling.

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    Scented Nectar

    November 18, 2011 at 4:37 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    “Is there any fucken d00d on earth who has ever used the word “prior” as a noun who doesn’t deserve a massive punch right in the motherfucken dicke?”

    Yes. Errr, I mean no!

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    F

    November 18, 2011 at 10:03 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    I don’t know about actually punching cops in teh dicke. Whether they deserve it or not.

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    Ed Oleen

    November 18, 2011 at 11:27 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    ummmmmm, doooooood. The work “prior” ALSO is the title of a member of a religious order, usually the person next in rank below an abbot (abbotess).

    So yes, the word prior can validly be used as a noun, in which case the person using the word DOES NOT deserve a muthafucken punch to the dickkee

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    Chebag

    November 18, 2011 at 11:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    “nice helpful guy”???? Sounds like you’ve been drinking the FlavorAde.

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    Badger3k

    November 19, 2011 at 12:56 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Why do you hate cops?

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    blindrobin

    November 19, 2011 at 11:06 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    The nouning of adjectives is just as evil as verbing of nouns(Oh shite! I sinned awfully).

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    David

    November 19, 2011 at 2:24 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    your previous posts have shown a bias against formal statistics, and this one adds a little bit of confirmation to that.

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    Brian Ogilvie

    November 19, 2011 at 4:15 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    Geoffrey Chaucer?

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    ChasCPeterson

    November 21, 2011 at 6:42 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    No.

    iswydt

    It’s stupid. You guys are really really bad at meaningful distinctions. But anything for that ‘gotcha!’, eh?’

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    Justicar

    November 21, 2011 at 7:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    <blockquote?It’s stupid. You guys are really really bad at meaningful distinctions. But anything for that ‘gotcha!’, eh?’
    Very well then. What meaningful distinction would make striking a woman in the pussy acceptable to you?

    Thanks in advance for delineating a (presumably not exclusive) list of reasons that makes punching women in the pussy acceptable. Make sure you clear it with your friends over here at FFTB first though; I suspect you’ll have difficulty getting the feministas to approve the list of acceptable reasons to assault women, let alone in the genitalia.

    Best of luck, Dr. Real Scientist.

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    Phil Giordana, FCD, aka Schroedinger's Dog

    November 22, 2011 at 9:08 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    C’mon Chas, be reasonable! If you can accept “punching a guy in the dicke”, you also have to accept “punching a girl in the cunt”.

    This is, after all, equality…

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    John Greg

    December 5, 2011 at 12:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

    No one deserves a kick in/on the anything just for using a word; however….

    Is there any fucken d00dette on earth who has ever used the word “prior” as a noun who doesn’t deserve a massive punch right in the motherfucken cunte?

    So, how does that one track? Can you defend one but not the other?

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   Such Precious, Sacred Little Pussies « grey lining

   November 21, 2011 at 6:53 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

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