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Matt_Simpson comments on Andrew Gelman on "the rhetorical power of anecdotes" - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: p4wnc6 23 April 2012 05:04PM

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Comment author: Matt_Simpson 24 April 2012 06:55:33PM 0 points [-]

To be clear, the problem isn't that the professors are encouraging action over inaction. It's that they are encouraging students to spend some of their limited amount of action points making things up rather than actually making progress toward solving the problem.