I also felt that the comparison was somewhat inadequately generalized. I felt that the "statistician" depicted in the OP is more frequentist than Bayesian.
>Statistics is more cautious and skeptical, "if I treat this as signal, it's going to blow up in my face later."
This is especially true about frequentist statistics. To quote the witty statistics giant Efron, "Frequentists are Bayesians that are trying to do not too badly."
