Yobi comments on I Was Not Almost Wrong But I Was Almost Right: Close-Call Counterfactuals and Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 March 2012 06:11:21AM * 2 points [-]

Feels obvious until it gets to using counterfactuals for possible debiasing and the dangers in the technique — this was quite interesting for me.

Also interesting are the "five logically defensible strategies".

Quibble:

If two people draw different conclusions from the same information, then at least one of them is wrong.

But different conclusions can be compatible?