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gwern comments on [Link] Tomasik's "Quantify with Care" - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Pablo_Stafforini 23 February 2013 01:52PM

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Comment author: gwern 23 February 2013 04:18:50PM 2 points [-]

I don't think there's anything really new here for long-time LWers (we all know Goodhart's law/Lucas critique, Ioannidis-style results, 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' etc), but some of the points about cost-benefit of statistical precision might be novel to some of us.