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> "The chances of my theory being true given this data is greater than 95% (or was it chances of getting this data given my theory?)"

The first statement assumes that parameters (i.e. a state of nature) are random variables. That's the Bayesan approach. The second statement assumes that parameters are fixed values, not random, but unknown. That's the frequentist approach.



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