That&#x27;s true, but Bayesian methods were handicapped by a lack of computational resources for quite a long time. Modern Bayesian methods, although fundamentally the same, are in practice quite different today compared to a century ago. Frequentist statistics gained popularity because it was more tractable to apply to complex problems until computational technology caught up.<p>Edit: one can argue that frequentist methods are generally approximations to Bayesian methods, much like Newton vs Einstein