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Popper requires you to posit null hypotheses to falsify (although there are different schools of thought on what exactly you need to specify in advance [1]).

Bayesianism requires you to assume / formalize your prior belief about the subject under investigation and updates it given some data, resulting in a posterior belief distribution. It thus does not have the clear distinctions of frequentism, but that can also be considered an advantage.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/hackl/www/lab/turkshop/readings/gigerenz...




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