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Douglas_Knight comments on Open thread, Aug. 10 - Aug. 16, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 August 2015 03:03:21AM 3 points [-]

We have to filter the papers somehow and the the people who do the filtering have to read them. But that doesn't mean that the people doing the filtering should be people on LW. Username relied on a journalist for filtering. This does filter for interesting topics, but not for quality. That Username did not link the actual paper suggests that he did not read it. Thus my prior is that it is of median quality and pure noise. Even if psychology papers were all perfectly accurate, there are way too many that get coverage and it is unlikely that one getting coverage this month is worth reading.

There are standard places to look for filters: review articles and books.

Comment author: pianoforte611 14 August 2015 03:16:50AM 0 points [-]

Okay that's very fair.