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jsteinhardt comments on The Logic of the Hypothesis Test: A Steel Man - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Matt_Simpson 21 February 2013 06:19AM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 25 February 2013 03:15:10AM 0 points [-]

I think Matt's point is that under essentially all seriously proposed versions of induction currently in existence, the technique he described constitutes a valid inductive inference, therefore, in at least the cases where hypothesis testing works, we don't have to worry about resolving the different approaches.

Comment author: prase 25 February 2013 05:30:16PM 0 points [-]

Couldn't this be said about any inductive method, at least in cases when the method works?