David_Gerard comments on What are you working on? April 2012 - Less Wrong
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Reading that paper, I feel like a dog being shown a card trick ... but gjm hypothesises a reporter being told "almost 10% more" (upper bound of likely selection coefficient ~0.97 edit: ~0.097) and hearing "almost ten times more". This is alarmingly plausible.
Correction: 0.097, not 0.97.