Cyan comments on The Statistician's Fallacy - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 09 December 2013 04:48AM

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Comment author: Cyan 10 December 2013 05:02:42PM *  3 points [-]

The message is really that the impact of a mistake has to be assessed in light of the entire body of evidence supporting the experts' view. Sometimes a single mistake really does undermine a case, but mostly not.