NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 May 2010 11:59:25PM *  1 point [-]

Crinimal profiling, good and bad

Article discusses the shift from impressive-looking guesswork to use of statistics. Also has an egregious example of the guesswork approach privileging the hypothesis.