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

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight3 26 July 2008 03:01:29PM 0 points [-]

athmwiji, yes, numbers are not necessary for anchoring. I think that they make the anchoring worse, but it would be very bad to avoid numbers just because they make it easy to see anchoring.