dvasya comments on Too good to be true - LessWrong

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Comment author: dvasya 11 July 2014 11:36:40PM 1 point [-]

(1) is obvious, of course--in hindsight. However changing your confidence level after the observation is generally advised against. But (2) seems to be confusing Type I and Type II error rates.

On another level, I suppose it can be said that of course they are all biased! But, by the actual two-tailed coin rather than researchers' prejudice against normal coins.