AndrewKemendo comments on Scaling Evidence and Faith - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AndrewKemendo 28 December 2009 06:59:43AM 2 points [-]

confidence level.

Most people do not understand what a confidence interval or confidence levels are. At least in my interactions. Unless you have had some sort of statistics (even basic) you probably haven't heard of it.

Comment author: MrHen 29 December 2009 04:30:03PM 2 points [-]

I would agree, but I think that teaching them a new term is easier than changing their conception of the term "faith."

Comment author: orthonormal 30 December 2009 02:55:06AM 0 points [-]

Well put. That's essentially why I downvoted the post.