jmmcd comments on Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty - Less Wrong

6 Post author: ozziegooen 19 October 2013 04:46PM

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Comment author: Coscott 19 October 2013 08:33:38PM 2 points [-]

This will never catch on unless someone can read the statement on its own, and through google know what it means. (logit=2)

How certain am I of the above statement?

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Comment author: jmmcd 19 October 2013 10:43:16PM 2 points [-]

can read the statement on its own

I like the principle behind Markdown: if it renders, fine, but if it doesn't, it degrades to perfectly readable plain-text.

A percentage is just fine.