Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Rationality Quotes Thread December 2015 - Less Wrong
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Look at Feynman's analysis. I'd say this is a good example of disproportionate channeling of optimism.
Yes. My point was that disproportionate channeling of optimism isn't something specific to medicine (let alone to evidence-based medicine).
EDIT: Hmm, I guess I originally took "disproportionally" to mean "compared to how much other things channel optimism" whereas it'd make more sense to interpret it as "compared to how much medicine channels pessimism".