benkuhn comments on FiveThirtyEight (Nate Silver) rolls out new blog today, and attempts to teach people Bayes' rule. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benkuhn 19 March 2014 05:01:50AM 0 points [-]

Yes, that's what I meant by "very rare:" there are situations where it happens, like the model that you gave, but I don't think ones that happen in real life likely to contribute a very large effect. You need really insane publication bias to get a large effect there.