PhilGoetz comments on Common Errors in History - Less Wrong

4 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 February 2010 07:27PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 09 February 2010 08:59:40PM *  8 points [-]

I wanted to see if reading a list of common errors could reveal common ways of making errors.

I'm frankly peeved that I went to the trouble of finding this difficult-to-obtain book that sounded relevant to LW, reading it, and summarizing it, just to get instantly karma-slammed for my troubles.

Comment author: MrHen 09 February 2010 09:13:31PM 1 point [-]

Ahh! That makes much more sense. The best version of this in the post is:

I tried to find some pattern to the "common errors" listed, but this is the best I could do:

Which I took to mean that the focus was only on the pamphlet and not that this was part of some bigger project/test/idea or whatever.