jimmy comments on Experts vs. parents - Less Wrong

16 Post author: PhilGoetz 29 September 2010 04:48PM

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Comment author: jimmy 29 September 2010 10:02:00PM 3 points [-]

My mom is definitely better than doctors at telling what's wrong with me.

Last time I was wondering why I was a bit more tired than normal, she had figured out (and didn't tell me) that I was getting sick. Sure enough, a few hours later I felt sick and threw up. This kind of thing happens enough to know that she really can tell when something isn't quite right with me.

When I was a little kid, my parents had to stop feeding me red pancakes because it made me hyper. I'll see if they came to that conclusion without having previously heard of the hypothesis.