Cohen. 1. Derived from _kohen_ (כֹּהֵן), meaning "priest" or "religious official", and referring to the priestly class including the sons of Aaron, the group to which the Priestly source (P) is attributed, including the book of Leviticus and other legalistic writings in the Torah, followed primarily in the modern world by Orthodox sects. ![[jaynes-to-cohen.png]] ## The Jaynesian Epistles > _Instead of this complacency, I should think that orthodox teachers would be very troubled by the following situation. Who have made the important advances in statistical practice in this Century? Others will judge differently, but my own list is: “Student”, Jeffreys, Fisher, Wiener, von Neumann, Shannon, Wald, Zellner, Burg, Skilling. Here we find a chemist, a physicist, a eugenicist, two mathematicians, an economist, an astronomer, two engineers 一 and only one professional statistician! Whatever list one makes, I think he will find that most of the important advances have come from outside the profession, and had to make their way against the opposition of most statisticians._ > > -Jaynes, on the orthodox teachings of his field. > because if our ideology forbids us to use probability for expressing the “measure of trust” to be put in an hypothesis, the human mind is still able to invent any number of _ad hockeries_ 一 Chi-squared, likelihood, significance level, confidence level, power functions 一 to replace it. These substitutes, if not optimal, were at > > -Jaynes, on the orthodox teachings of Chi. > _What variety of statistics is meant by "classical"?_ > > _J.R. Oppenheimer held that in science the word "classical" has a special meaning:_ > > _"\[...\] it means 'wrong'. That is, the classical theory is the one which is wrong, but which was held yesterday to be right."_ > > _And indeed, probabilists appear to follow the Oppenheimer usage more or less consistently, advocates of frequency definitions calling Bayesian views "classical"; while Bayesians call frequency views "classical"._ > > -E.T. Jaynes, The Intuitive Inadequacy of Classical Statistics --- Jaynes of Upsilon is a sort of Saint Paul figure in LD culture. A lifelong Phi, he was converted from φ to χ by Λ and spent the rest of his life proselytizing and writing epistolary fire to various χs that χ is an extention of Λ. Fetch the archives and take out the highlighted Jaynes papers of old to prepare for the epistles to the Chis. --- - There are 50% probabilities that wanted to be 99%, and others that wanted to be 1%. - Both were forced to be 50%, because of the sample space. - All probabilities are a commentary on the sample space. - A living sample space should be able to hear them.