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Vaniver comments on Open thread 7th september - 13th september - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 07 September 2015 03:28:58PM 5 points [-]

People have considered stronger versions of this, but it's not clear to me how large the effect size is. (One would expect that the data collection would suffer from selection and confirmation bias.) With most subtle effects, it seems much easier to comment on the population-level effects than individual-level effects: perhaps Jaynes was nudged, but who can say whether the nudge would have made a difference or not?