John_Maxwell_IV comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2012 06:11AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (306)

Sort By: Controversial

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 04 April 2012 04:29:12AM 2 points [-]

I noticed a similar flaw in some studies Dan Areily was citing to prove that incentive pay didn't work, and e-mailed him about it. He didn't have any counterarguments when he responded to me, but he did keep citing the studies IIRC...