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Viliam_Bur comments on Brainstorming for post topics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 05 June 2014 11:31:42PM 0 points [-]

It seems to me that sometimes my ability to do things correlates with weather (high/low pressure), but I don't keep records to prove or disprove this hypothesis. Just writing it here as an example for a hypothesis I would usually not think about. It doesn't explain why person X is more productive than person Y, but it could explain why person Y failed on a specific day.