Douglas_Knight3 comments on When (Not) To Use Probabilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight3 25 July 2008 01:15:35AM 1 point [-]

I suspect my statement is the one that needed clarification. I was measuring the size of a problem by the psychological difficulty of overcoming it. If anchoring is too big to overcome, it is better to avoid situations where it applies. And identifying the bias is not (necessarily) much of a step towards overcoming it.