James_Miller comments on Should we be biased? - Less Wrong

-13 Post author: James_Miller 27 April 2009 03:42PM

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

Comments (23)

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

Comment author: James_Miller 27 April 2009 04:02:06PM 0 points [-]

"The definition of bias given in the article is, I believe, quite different from the definition accepted here. "

You are probably right but it is very dangerous to define a word differently than most other people do when that word has extreme negative connotations for many people.

Comment author: timtyler 27 April 2009 06:51:25PM 2 points [-]

Talk to the University of Chicago about that - they are the ones who need to get a dictionary:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bias