... Archives . ... Sometimes, I think that the bipartisanship is not driven by politicians but it?s driven by media, commentator, and interpreters. me: Why Bayesian methods? . astronomers: Because Bayesian is robust. Because frequentist method is not robust. ... How come astronomers possess the idea that Bayesian statistics is robust and frequentist is not? ... Is this why they think frequentist methods are not robust? ... There are too many robust statistics that frequentists have developed. ...