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Douglas_Knight comments on Notes on Psychopathy - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: gwern 19 December 2012 04:02AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 December 2012 03:32:00AM 0 points [-]

Yes, but many people use both cut-offs and regressions. It is quite common to see a regression of the effect of a continuous input on the probability of crossing a cut-off. This seems indefensible to me.