Douglas_Knight comments on Reductionist research strategies and their biases - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 12 February 2015 08:00:58PM 1 point [-]

What does "reductionism" mean here? "using models"?

The title is very strange, because it seems to be suggest that the biases are as compared to some other paradigm, but the criticisms are all internal, that the models are too simple.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 February 2015 02:27:10AM 0 points [-]

A bias is relative to reality. The function f(x)+epsilon is an accurate but biased estimator of f(x).