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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on The Argument from Crisis and Pessimism Bias - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 11 November 2014 08:25PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 12 November 2014 12:59:35PM 0 points [-]

It's not like wo don't know anythink about the dark figures. The first rigorus approch seems to be this one:

Dunkelfeldforschung in Bochum 1986/87 by Hans-Dieter Schwind

This is in German but an executive summary in English can be found on page 290 ff.

Comment author: ChristianKl 12 November 2014 03:21:12PM 0 points [-]

We know enough to know that statistics like the one you cited shouldn't be treated as being the actual values and that was the main point I was making above.