gwern comments on Overcoming the negative signal of not attending college. - Less Wrong

10 Post author: James_Miller 16 February 2011 08:13PM

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Comment author: gwern 16 February 2011 09:57:24PM 0 points [-]

A creative person would be driven nigh to insanity by such a program, the reasoning goes. So only uncreative types would apply.

If applying is strong evidence for being uncreative, then by Bayes, not-applying* is weak evidence for being creative.

* Such as by applying instead to a college.

Comment author: James_Miller 16 February 2011 10:49:36PM 1 point [-]

A creative person with a long-term orientation might love the program because it would allow him to quickly start his life and avoid all the not-necessarily interesting work he would normally have to do in college.