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khafra comments on Happy Ada Lovelace Day - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: palladias 16 October 2012 09:42PM

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Comment author: khafra 17 October 2012 01:11:14PM 13 points [-]

My opinion of India's government just went up several notches. Controlled random trials on entire villages? We need to elect more mad scientists!

Comment author: palladias 17 October 2012 01:30:14PM 6 points [-]

My methods prof brought this study and a few others on natural opportunities for experiment the first day. I think it was to try and get the polisci majors to govern more like mad scientists if they ended up in applied politics instead of theoretical.