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

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Comment author: Algernoq 24 July 2014 01:22:52AM 1 point [-]

I agree the above is true in nearly all cases. In some fields (economics), some papers try to signal value by using needlessly complicated statistics borrowed from other fields.