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@pilossopher @paulgp Usually when I see some attention-seeking garbage on twitter I just move on. But since you ask, @pilossopher, and since you find this stuff interesting, @paulgp ... 1/n
@pilossopher @paulgp first, they generate data from the SW model and then use an R-pckge to find the mode. The results are not that surprising—it takes a lot of data to nail the true parameters, and for some you may not succeed at all even w lots of data because the model is not well identified 2/n
@pilossopher @paulgp Which is why reasonable people would never just look at the mode but explore the entirety of the posterior distribution—if the data are uninformative the posterior uncertainty would tell you just that. But I guess this subtlety escapes our esteemed authors 3/n
