The Problems with “The Problem with ‘Magnitude-Based Inference’”

Dear Editor-in-Chief, Kristin Sainani offered numerous reasons why magnitude-based inference (MBI) should not be used (1). We have provided a detailed rebuttal (sportsci.org/2018/mbivind.htm), which we summarize here. She claims that the probabilistic statements in MBI, such as the treatment is possibly beneficial, are invalid, because these are Bayesian statements and MBI is not Bayesian. We assert that this claim is false because MBI is a...