Emily comments on Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence - LessWrong

59 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 18 March 2012 03:53AM

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Comment author: Emily 13 March 2012 05:47:53PM 1 point [-]

Paragraph 1 is quite largely a repeat of the abstract in more cutesy terms. I found it somewhat annoying to read the latter right after the former. (I liked the article in general.)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 13 March 2012 06:14:38PM 3 points [-]

Good point.

Scientific papers are usually written with a structure where the abstract and actual text are independent of each other, i.e. the paper doesn't presume that you've read the abstract and often ends up repeating some of its content in the introduction. I imitated that structure out of habit, but I'm not sure whether it's a good structure to use for blog posts.

Comment author: fburnaby 13 March 2012 11:12:21PM 1 point [-]

It didn't bother me. Though this may just be beacause I'm already habituated to ignoring it after having read many journal articles.