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gwern comments on Group rationality diary, 8/6/12 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gwern 13 August 2012 04:20:04PM 10 points [-]

1) Writing only about successful projects improves the signal:noise ratio. However enthusiastic I feel about my game, if it fails, it is an evidence that it was not worth publishing.

What a lovely justification of publication bias.

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