CarlShulman comments on Problems in Education - Less Wrong

65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 11 April 2013 10:10:20PM *  0 points [-]

That's going further than I did. It's a reasonable prior, and the evidence is at least consistent with weak effects.

Comment author: gwern 11 April 2013 10:54:15PM 1 point [-]

Eh. Decius was clearly thinking of, and still is thinking of, substantial and longlasting effects rather than the almost trivially small disappearing effects confirmed by the followups and meta-analyses. That is completely unreasonable a view to hold after reading that review, and I would suggest that even that small nonzero effect is dubious since it seems that few to none of the studies fully accounted for the accuracy issue and there is obviously publication bias at play.