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polymathwannabe comments on Instinctive Frequentists, the Outside View, and de-Biasing - Less Wrong Discussion

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 September 2013 08:19PM

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 23 September 2013 04:53:24PM 0 points [-]

Indeed, wording is a problem. The first time I read about this fallacy (elsewhere on this website), it was between "A: Paul is a laywer AND plays the sax" and "B: Paul plays the sax." I understood B as meaning that Paul's job was as a musician, which I judged less likely than being a lawyer with a music hobby.