dlthomas comments on Beautiful Probability - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 January 2008 07:19AM

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Comment author: thomblake 26 October 2011 05:16:15PM 0 points [-]

That he discarded data is additional information to update on, that was not present in the above example. It doesn't matter what the researcher intended, if he got that data on the first try.

Comment author: dlthomas 26 October 2011 05:27:06PM 0 points [-]

My point is that if we allow researchers to follow methodology like this, they will in practice be discarding data, and we will be unaware of it - even when each individual researcher is otherwise completely honest in how they deal with the data.