Desrtopa comments on What Evidence Filtered Evidence? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 26 December 2012 05:37:14AM 1 point [-]

It's harder to work out an example of evidence turning out to be much stronger than is claimed

Not particularly difficult, just posit a person who prior experience has taught you is particularly unreliable about assessing evidence. If they post a link arguing a position you already know they're in favor of, you should assign a relatively low weight of evidence to the knowledge that they've linked to a resource arguing the position, but if you check it out and find that it's actually well researched and reasoned, then you update upwards.