Bo102010 comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bo102010 01 May 2010 02:52:08PM 4 points [-]

I remind myself of Conservation of Expected Evidence most days I'm at work.

I'm an engineer, and it helps remind me that a data point can either support a hypothesis or that hypothesis's opposite, but not both at once. This is especially useful for explaining things to non-technical people.