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SanguineEmpiricist comments on Open Thread, May 4 - May 10, 2015 - Less Wrong
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Yeah parenting definitely matters in specific skills you choose to teach your kids/putting your kids on medication if they need it etc. It's a problem with scientists getting over-excited about the implications of their studies, they want to believe they can be a priesthood to the world when there is a higher plane of counsel & reference, which is prescriptive decision theory.
Well, I can't say I agree with that sentiment at all (but I suspect that discussion will devolve into disagreements about tone, and which types of media we take as representative of "scientists".)
I think my statement is understated. Read Isaac Levi's gambling with the truth for kind of the right area but any statistical decision theory book will work. This is a place for prescriptive decision theory and not scientists even though they are important.
Very lesswrongish.