Sithlord_Bayesian comments on Book Review: Heuristics and Biases (MIRI course list) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sithlord_Bayesian 02 September 2013 04:19:38PM 2 points [-]

The values of physical constants are regularly outside of the expected interval by 3+ standard deviations. This goes on for decades.

Moral of the story: Visualize the ways you could be way off. Use outside views. Increase your error bars.

Does this refer to literature values of physical constants, or the values of physical constants as guessed at by participants of psych studies?

Comment author: So8res 02 September 2013 04:34:38PM *  1 point [-]

The former. I've edited to make it more clear. Thanks.