jhuffman comments on Weak supporting evidence can undermine belief - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Lightwave 29 September 2011 10:11AM

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Comment author: jhuffman 29 September 2011 01:22:31PM 3 points [-]

Also in this case, we have evidence that there is only token support in congress for public measures to improve adoption. I'm kind of surprised the control found this evidence to be net positive really. And I wonder if the evidence gets evaluated a little different when people have to use it rather than just evaluate it.