NancyLebovitz comments on May Outreach Thread - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 06 May 2016 08:02PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 May 2016 04:39:40PM 1 point [-]

My notion for outreach is to start with the planning fallacy because it's straightforward and something a lot of people have experience with, and see how much can be built from there.

Comment author: Viliam 10 May 2016 09:06:59PM 1 point [-]

straightforward and something a lot of people have experience with

I like this. Then I would also suggest selection bias. (Specifically to students I'd say that for every school dropout who became famous, there are thousand others who didn't.)