JonahSinick comments on The Use of Many Independent Lines of Evidence: The Basel Problem - Less Wrong

22 Post author: JonahSinick 03 June 2013 04:42AM

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Comment author: JonahSinick 03 June 2013 06:45:20PM 1 point [-]

I agree that my argument isn't tight. I'm partially going on tacit knowledge that I acquired during graduate school. The figure that I gave is a best guess.

Comment author: orthonormal 03 June 2013 07:17:16PM 7 points [-]

I think it's inappropriate to cite a figure as support for your estimate unless you indicate in some way how that figure affects your estimate.

Comment author: JonahSinick 03 June 2013 08:22:00PM 2 points [-]

I changed my post accordingly. I'm somewhat puzzled as to why it rubbed people the wrong way (to such a degree that my above comment was downvoted three times.)