MichaelVassar comments on Complexity of Value ≠ Complexity of Outcome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 31 January 2010 10:50:55AM 6 points [-]

Doctors or medicine, investors or analysis of public information, scientists or science, philosophers or philosophy... maybe it's the process of credentialing that we should be downgrading our credence in. Really, why should the prior for credentials being a very significant form of evidence ever have been very high?

Comment author: CarlShulman 31 January 2010 12:54:10PM 3 points [-]

The philpapers survey is for the top 99 departments. Things do get better as you go up. Among hard scientists, elite schools are more atheist, and the only almost entirely atheist groups are super-elite, like the National Academy of Sciences/Royal Society.