katydee comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: katydee 06 April 2012 03:38:21PM 0 points [-]

I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here, can you be more specific?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 06 April 2012 04:07:10PM 1 point [-]

"How many people will buy product X" may be insufficiently specific. Can you guess why?

The rot13 material gives two reasonable answers, but it's also important to have an estimate of how the price will affect the sales.

Comment author: katydee 06 April 2012 09:15:43PM * 0 points [-]

Good point, added.