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Comment Re:Ugh, Stop Abusing Math (Score 1) 284

As probability and statistics professional, I need to disagree with you.

A Bayesian interpretation of probability would allow probability to measure one's belief about how likely any uncertain outcome would be to occur.

Sounds like you are insisting the Washington Post adopt the more common (but only slightly more common) relative frequency definition of probability

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