paper-machine comments on Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Academian 05 November 2012 01:02AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2012 07:58:07PM *  1 point [-]

Could you clarify that a bit?

Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2012 08:00:36PM *  5 points [-]

The timing of this posts and its counterpart makes suspect the processes that produced them. Motivated cognition.

Comment author: CarlShulman 06 November 2012 12:50:09AM 0 points [-]

I have posted on Gelman and similar reasoning in non-election periods.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 November 2012 06:54:35AM *  1 point [-]

That's cool but you weren't cited by the author of either articles so your work seems unlikely to have inspired the authors who published on November 5th (the day before the US presidential election).