PhilGoetz comments on Reductionist research strategies and their biases - LessWrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 February 2015 02:27:10AM 0 points [-]

A bias is relative to reality. The function f(x)+epsilon is an accurate but biased estimator of f(x).