Tag: knowledge

08 Apr 2008

How does the Average Move If We Just Accept It?

First, Robin:
Inhuman Rationality?
 
We seem comfortable celebrating those who practice complex statistical analysis, even if only one in a thousand can do so. And the one in a billion genius celebrated for greatly improving our understanding or practice of statistics, or other rationality, seems to us an epitome of the best in humanity. Who [...]

06 Mar 2008

Treat the Average (Weighted?) as True?

So, Robin has this post that we should reject our beliefs if they are off average and we do not have a good reason to believe they are better than the average (oversimplified, read the post for more). I may have more objections to this, but the main one is that I suspect this leads [...]