maia comments on Consider Representative Data Sets - Less Wrong
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You don't provide any examples and your text is too dense and abstract. Try using smaller words and shorter sentences. Also, you put too much emphasis on your numbering scheme: You bold "The first mistake" and then you de-emphasize the part where you actually say what that mistake is, and the rest of the paragraph is a wall of text.
It's also, frankly, not very helpful.
You can't avoid priming effects once you've been primed. "Don't think about it" just won't work.
It seems like the main point of your post is to present biases in a new way: modeling them all as some form of "using the wrong data." I'm skeptical that this is a helpful model, but honestly, I would probably be a lot less skeptical if your post focused on that main point more clearly.