wedrifid comments on Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 01 June 2012 07:58:06AM *  5 points [-]

and there are many more ways of being shoddy than merely a limited sample size.

"Give me an example! ... Ha! Your example isn't a fully general enumeration of the entire class... Fooled you!!"

Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 June 2012 08:10:29AM -2 points [-]

Your example wasn't an example at all, just a made-up scenario of many small pieces of evidence adding up to large evidence. You originally said

Um... yes, often it does

(emphasis mine.) When asked to back that up, you just made stuff up.