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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Jul. 20 - Jul. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 July 2015 03:08:03PM *  1 point [-]

The clusterfuck in medical science with some well-intentioned attempts to do it better, not actually well, but somewhat better.

Edited to add: A follow-up on the deworming wars (which might be of interest to EAs as, I think deworming was considered to be an very effective intervention) in this blog -- and read the discussion in the comments.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 23 July 2015 05:38:43PM 6 points [-]

From that article:

0.745 was incorrectly truncated to 0.74 rather than 0.75

well...