ThisSpaceAvailable comments on Many Weak Arguments vs. One Relatively Strong Argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 09 June 2013 06:50:45PM 1 point [-]

It's very difficult to come up with truly independent arguments. The examples given aren't even close. WA1 is that people majoring in a quantitative subject in general have higher earnings. WA2 is that a specific subsets of jobs that require a quantitative subject major have high earnings. Clearly, these are not independent.