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Marius comments on Folk theories can be useful even when they're entirely wrong - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: taw 23 March 2011 04:04PM

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Comment author: Marius 23 March 2011 07:58:15PM 5 points [-]

All people hold folk theories. The question is whether, given the set of folk theories you unknowingly hold, correcting an interacting folk theory to a scientifically sound one will improve or degrade your overall performance.