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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 October 2007 11:49PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 21 October 2007 08:51:48AM 4 points [-]

Certain kinds of academics use this to justify a rhetorical technique: they simply say they do not understand what you say, and they keep repeating this for any statements that do not fit with their standard method. For example, in a community uses formal statistical techniques, they say they cannot understand any argument for a probabilistic conclusion that is not expressed as a formal statistical test.