Your health research lecturer has devoted the past ten weeks to teaching you the Bayesian approach and is now asking that you offer a critique of it.  What key criticism could you raise?

A. The lack of reliance on a prior probability is overly subjective and therefore can be open to a researcher’s degrees of freedom.
B. The lack of reliance on a null hypothesis is overly objective and therefore open to a researcher’s degrees of freedom.
C. The reliance on a prior probability is overly objective and therefore not open to a researcher’s degrees of freedom.
D. The reliance on a prior probability is overly subjective and therefore can be open to a researcher’s degrees of freedom.


Answer: D

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