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syllogism comments on On the Importance of Systematic Biases in Science - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: gwern 20 January 2013 09:39PM

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Comment author: syllogism 22 January 2013 11:06:55PM 5 points [-]

What's more, that's not even the problem. Let's say you ask the Chinese people to estimate the height of the king of Samoa. Here they've never talked of him, and know nothing about him other than that he's human. You still can't magic the information out of repeated estimation.