steven0461 comments on Consider Representative Data Sets - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 May 2009 02:00:32AM *  2 points [-]

So, what's wrong with this article? Is it bad prose, or too hand-wavy assertions, or overly obscure presentation/inferential distance, or too much text, or too obvious a point? Please leave a comment, I really don't understand.

In general, I think that getting a custom of writing some formal review-like comments would be valuable as feedback, not about the subject of the article, but about presentation, especially if the article looks bad and there is much for the author to work on improving.

Comment author: steven0461 07 May 2009 03:53:25PM 0 points [-]

No strong opinion of the content until I reread, but the writing style seems rather dry and abstract. That's a problem I tend to have myself; probably it comes from not speaking English in daily life.