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christianoudard comments on [QUESTION]: Academic social science and machine learning - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: VipulNaik 19 July 2014 03:13PM

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Comment author: christianoudard 19 July 2014 07:30:38PM 4 points [-]

In my understanding of academia, people can be very resistant to integrating ideas from "unrelated" fields. The statistical tools that any one person uses are probably more determined by the status quo than anything else. I vote for options (2) and (4) as the most likely.