Eugine_Nier comments on True numbers and fake numbers - Less Wrong

19 Post author: cousin_it 06 February 2014 12:29PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 February 2014 07:40:07AM -1 points [-]

So, can you give the explicit numbers you assign to specific things?

Comment author: djm 07 February 2014 08:35:30AM 0 points [-]

Yes I can - at any given time in my life I have weightings assigned to some choices / outcomes (or least a mental formula of it). These weightings may change based on my circumstance but the point I was trying to make is that my numbers are every bit as real as any survey result, sales special.

Comment author: cousin_it 07 February 2014 01:02:30PM 0 points [-]

For what it's worth, survey results are fake numbers, in the sense that I'm using the word.