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skeptical_lurker comments on [LINK] Scott Adam's "Rationality Engine". Part III: Assisted Dying - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: shminux 02 April 2015 04:55PM

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Comment author: skeptical_lurker 02 April 2015 06:43:45PM 2 points [-]

I notice he is 100% confidant of several conclusions in "the gender pay gap", and that he thinks that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But apart for that, it seems fairly rational.

Comment author: ChristianKl 02 April 2015 06:46:35PM 3 points [-]

He argues that the absence of evidence is primarily because you can't control for relevant factors. If you don't have evidence because you can't control for the relevant factors absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.