[Taxacom] Zanderian throwaway line

[Bob Mesibov]

Richard Zander wrote:

"It is a measure of the apparent certainty of a cluster (where 83% bootstrap is about 95% posterior probability from my simulations, depending on branch length)."

I hope this doesn't pass into folklore among the students you're hoping to wean away from cladistics, as in 'They say 83% bootstrap is 95% PP'. Not only are the two estimates unrelated, but neither has much to do with the 'science' of developing evolutionary hypotheses (sensu Zander), as opposed to using character data for evidence-based classifications.
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Dr Robert Mesibov
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