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    Beliefs about statistical hypotheses are not properly fra... — Carmelics
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    Beliefs about statistical hypotheses are not properly framed by connecting them to behavior via betting.

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    • 1.Statistical hypotheses concern objective features of repeatable processes, not singular events where personal stakes are coherently assignable.
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    • 2.De Finetti's betting framework presupposes a singular agent with stable preferences, but frequency-based inference abstracts away from any particular agent's utility function.
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    • 3.Ramsey's foundational betting operationalization was designed for personal degrees of belief, not for scientific claims about population parameters that must remain intersubjectively stable across observers.
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    • 1.Popper's propensity interpretation establishes that objective probability is a disposition of physical setups, making subjective willingness-to-bet an epistemically irrelevant measure of its value.
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    • 2.If a belief's content is constituted by objective chance, then its proper epistemic norm is calibration to evidence about that chance, not coherence of a betting book, as Neyman's confidence interval framework demonstrates.
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    • 1.Framing probability assignments via betting introduces pragmatic considerations (concerned with navigating the world successfully) into beliefs.
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    • 2.Belief is by itself more concerned with being a truthful representation of the world than with pragmatic success.
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    There are several problems with this interpretation of the probability assignment over hypotheses. For one, it seems to make little sense to bet on the truth of a statistical hypothesis, because such hypotheses cannot be falsified or verified. Consequently, a betting contract on them will never be cashed. More generally, it is not clear that beliefs about statistical hypotheses are properly framed by connecting them to behavior in this way. It has been argued (e.g., Armendt 1993) that this way
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