shokwave comments on Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments - Less Wrong

68 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2011 03:19AM

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Comment author: shokwave 19 January 2011 06:11:12AM 0 points [-]

It wasn't a very good example at all. I basically grepped my memory for "idiot statistics" and that one featured strongly. The problem there was not a misuse of statistical tests, it was a misinterpretation of the significance of statistical tests.