shminux comments on [Link] Research on Christian deconversion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 07 March 2012 01:11:26AM 3 points [-]

Alert: inferential distance failure!

You would have to make them first read the sequences and learn university-level math and physics. And probably some philosophy of science.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 March 2012 02:31:23AM 1 point [-]

I mostly agree, but there are ways of explaining basic Bayesian reasoning without having to get into too many prerequisites. See my reply to David Gerard, which is an attempt to do just that.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 March 2012 03:02:02AM 0 points [-]

Probably best to teach them this before they know it's a conversation about deconversion. No one is going to want to learn something if it means losing an argument.