Lumifer comments on Open thread, Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 30 October 2014 03:45:16PM 2 points [-]

Calculating probabilities for many everyday issues is hugely weird for many people.

And rightly so. The great majority of people are badly calibrated, can't estimate priors properly, etc. If they tried to calculate probabilities for "many everyday issues" I would bet most of them would land straight in the valley of bad rationality.

Comment author: Azathoth123 02 November 2014 05:48:21AM 0 points [-]

Heck, many people here can't do it right. I'm in particular thinking of the recent thread about computing probability of UFOs or aliens.