MichaelVassar comments on Be Happier - Less Wrong

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Comment author: michaelcurzi 15 April 2012 06:16:43AM 8 points [-]

This is amazing! Well researched. I want to see an article like this on so many topics.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 17 April 2012 05:02:36AM 0 points [-]

Wow. I disagree exactly. It's a data-dump with little insight. Exactly what I don't want to see on LW.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 19 April 2012 07:26:16AM 5 points [-]

Maybe insight is better, but for people who haven't already studied everything, posts like this save a lot of time and suggest study of things that perhaps they hadn't realized were there.

Comment author: Hul-Gil 19 April 2012 07:52:03AM *  4 points [-]

I would have liked some thoughts on/insight into the data posted as well; but all the same, summaries like this, that gather a lot of related but widely-dispersed information together, are very useful (especially as a quick reference or overview, or, as Jonathan says below, as a starting point for further research), and I definitely wouldn't mind seeing more of them.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 April 2012 08:39:16AM *  7 points [-]

Wow. I disagree exactly. It's a data-dump with little insight. Exactly what I don't want to see on LW.

"Insight" sounds altogether too much like "Speculative Just So bullshit".

These are actual empirical findings pertaining to the expected outcomes for executing given behaviors and references to the evidence they are based on. The point isn't to gain 'insight', and any analysis of the data would be best as an investigation in more detail of what the precise indications of the data are, how the indicated behaviors can be most usefully executed and whether any of the summaries given of the findings (and even the findings expressed in the abstracts) are the correct interpretation of the data.

Comment author: drethelin 17 April 2012 05:12:44AM 2 points [-]
Comment author: Klevador 17 April 2012 07:05:20AM 3 points [-]