mrglwrf comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong
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I see no good reason to presume a correlation between a med school's admissions criteria and total lives saved over a doctor's career as tight as this reasoning requires. Or to presume that it is near certain that if he hadn't lied, another liar wouldn't have been accepted in his place.
This reasoning merely requires that the correlation exist and be positive.