JohnD comments on What Is Signaling, Really? - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2012 05:43PM

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Comment author: JohnD 10 July 2012 11:25:28AM 3 points [-]

I'm curious, was the Art History comment a dig at Michael Lewis?

Comment author: JohnD 10 July 2012 01:20:49PM 0 points [-]

On a slightly more constructive note, the game theoretic analysis of signals has also been used to analyse and suggest improvements to the use of forensic evidence in law. Roger Koppl's two articles "Epistemic Systems" and "Epistemics for Forensics" go into this in quite some detail, with the former laying out the mathematical framework and the later providing an experimental test of some of the hypotheses drawn from that framework.

I use this a little bit in my article on blinding and expert evidence, available here:

http://keele.academia.edu/JohnDanaher/Papers/1193589/_Blind_Expertise_and_the_Problem_of_Scientific_Evidence_