Grognor comments on Practical debiasing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Grognor 21 November 2011 05:27:16AM 4 points [-]

Okay, lessdazed's comment is getting up-voted a lot, which I think stems from how his post misinterprets mine in a humorous way.

less biased than other people.

was bad wording on my part, I'm afraid. What I really meant was:

significantly less biased than the norm.

which, in turn, really means:

less biased than they actually are.

This is what I really meant, and what the bias blind spot is really about: not noticing, or not correcting for, your own biases (which are there, regardless of whether they are there more or less often than other people. Remember: it is useless to be superior.)