multifoliaterose comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong

75 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 18 August 2011 11:34PM

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 18 August 2011 11:06:20PM 0 points [-]

What you say is true, but even after taking into account the point about absence of evidence being evidence of absence one still needs to Bayesian adjust on account of measurement errors giving rise to some charities' activities being overvalued and others being undervalued according to the measurements.