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JoshuaFox comments on Stupid Questions (10/27/2014) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 29 October 2014 01:03:20PM *  2 points [-]

Quite right. There are always people who undergo spontaneous improvement, and if we cherry-pick success stories, we might just come up with those examples. I'd rather have a proper statistical study, and I think that CfAR is working on that. But until then, I'll make do with success stories.