Douglas_Knight comments on Error detection bias in research - Less Wrong

54 Post author: neq1 22 September 2010 03:00AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 22 September 2010 06:30:08PM 4 points [-]

Rather tangentially...
Here is a linguistic danger of your article. It's not much of a danger if one reads the text in order, but if one starts with headlines, "How common are coding errors in research?" could be confusing because many fields of research (probably most researchers) use "coding" to mean "labeling." eg, when a human watches a tape of a monkey and codes it as "looked left" or "looked right." And they keep track of rates of "coding errors."
So I'd suggest changing that headline to "programming."

Comment author: neq1 23 September 2010 12:30:45AM 0 points [-]

good point