JoshuaZ comments on Error detection bias in research - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 September 2010 03:44:37AM 8 points [-]

This happens in other ways also. Mathematicians are much more likely to look suspiciously at a proof of a surprising result than at a proof of a result that seems very reasonable.