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Coscott comments on Creating a Text Shorthand for Uncertainty - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: ozziegooen 19 October 2013 04:46PM

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Comment author: Coscott 19 October 2013 08:33:38PM 2 points [-]

This will never catch on unless someone can read the statement on its own, and through google know what it means. (logit=2)

How certain am I of the above statement?

Submitting...

Comment author: jmmcd 19 October 2013 10:43:16PM 2 points [-]

can read the statement on its own

I like the principle behind Markdown: if it renders, fine, but if it doesn't, it degrades to perfectly readable plain-text.

A percentage is just fine.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 October 2013 03:52:06PM 0 points [-]

I assumed the logit were base e, remembered that exp(2) is about 7, and... the median vote is mine.