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

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Comment author: ozziegooen 20 October 2013 12:29:38AM 0 points [-]

I feel like probabilities are longer (80 as opposed to 3) and in some ways contain more information (1 out of a 100) than we can really state ~i1. In effect, we have few significant figures.

That said, the understandability of percentages may outweigh this benefit (-~i1).