private_messaging comments on How valuable is it to learn math deeply? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: private_messaging 11 October 2013 04:39:35PM 1 point [-]

Yes, I agree. The tails are a problem in general, estimation in the tails gets very fuzzy very quickly.

And it seems to me that having studied math complete with boring exercises could help with understanding of that somewhat... all too often you see people not even ballpark by just how much necessary application of regression towards the mean affects the rarity.