JoshuaFox comments on Stupid Questions (10/27/2014) - Less Wrong

15 Post author: drethelin 27 October 2014 09:27PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 28 October 2014 07:58:48PM 1 point [-]

If you want marketing materials or want to estimate the upper bound, the question is useful. If you think you'll get some sort of a representative sample, um, sorry to disappoint you...

Comment author: JoshuaFox 29 October 2014 01:03:20PM *  2 points [-]

Quite right. There are always people who undergo spontaneous improvement, and if we cherry-pick success stories, we might just come up with those examples. I'd rather have a proper statistical study, and I think that CfAR is working on that. But until then, I'll make do with success stories.