secretsquirrel comments on For-Profit Rationality Training - Less Wrong

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Comment author: secretsquirrel 02 August 2012 07:08:38PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for your input. I'm not sure whether you are saying that it is a waste of time (both mine and theirs) to try to teach people about Bayesian inference, or whether there was a better way I could have explained it and made it relevant to them. If the latter, do you have any ideas as to how I could improve my treatment of the topic?

Comment author: juliawise 02 August 2012 07:32:26PM *  0 points [-]

I'm not sure there's a way to make it relevant to a previously uninterested audience in 5 minutes. I think your speech was well done for the constraints you had, but I don't have ideas for how to make that topic work given the constraints.

I might have picked a simpler cognitive bias to talk about instead.