elharo comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: elharo 01 May 2014 09:53:13AM 21 points [-]

The brutal truth is that reality is indifferent to your difficulty in finding enough subjects. It’s like astronomy: To study things that are small and distant in the sky you need a huge telescope. If you only have access to a few subjects, you need to study bigger effects, and maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

-- Joseph P. Simmons, The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 May 2014 02:48:35PM 0 points [-]

Voted up for the linked article more than for the quote.