lukeprog comments on A History of Bayes' Theorem - Less Wrong

53 Post author: lukeprog 29 August 2011 07:04AM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 25 August 2011 12:21:53PM 5 points [-]

Nice article, though parts seem needlessly politicised, as Kaj noted. Also seems it could use editing in places. Just one example -

French officials were expected to collect statistics on all sorts of things: cholera victims, the chest sizes of soldiers, the number of Prussian officers killed by kicking horses

Seems historically implausible, unless them were French horses..

Comment author: lukeprog 29 August 2011 05:19:02PM 2 points [-]

Oops. I think I started the sentence listing only things French officials were expected to do, and then added more things to the list as I kept reading without appropriately making the subject of the sentence more general. Fixed.