efim comments on Meetup : Utrecht: Debiasing techniques - Less Wrong

1 Post author: immasix 16 August 2014 10:05AM

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Comment author: efim 21 August 2014 08:57:29AM 2 points [-]

If you could, please write something about which techniques you are going to use or point to the scourses. I tried, but didn´t find a lot of relevant material.

Comment author: immasix 31 August 2014 08:31:11AM *  1 point [-]

We will put a more detailed description later at meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/LWEANL/events/200065632/ You can also ask Sören. (LW username SoerenMind)

Comment author: SoerenMind 20 September 2014 12:02:48PM 0 points [-]

Hi efim!

I updated the description in the link on meetup.com that Imma gave. To give you some extra detail, we'll talk about: Which biases are hard/easy to correct? When does knowing about the existence of a bias help and when not? Which debiasing techniques are there (reversal test, consider the opposite, reference class forecasting...) and what are generally useful guidelines to stay rational? We'll run an experiment on confidence intervals and do a mini-RCT with a debiasing technique that hasn't been scientifically validated yet. I'll also share some links that I believe are useful to correct our decision-making errors.

Hope to see you there and sorry for the late reply!