Isn’t this just another way of saying “confirmation bias”?
About the only cure I’ve found for that is multiple personality disorder. Pretend you are trying to refute yourself, and want to find the strongest argument. Then pretend you have no opinion, and just want to understand the problem.
I find that helpful on personal issues. Pretend you’re your big brother, and looking for a solution for you. Solutions are obvious once you get your own ego and angst out of the way—once it isn’t your problem, but your little brother’s problem.
Jaynes talks about optional stopping from a statistical perspective, which makes for an interesting paper. I don’t think he was as clear on the solution as he needed to be. The issue is whether you know the data, or you just know that you passed a test where optional stopping was used. If you clearly identify the state of knowledge you are conditioning on, the problems go away. I think that paper is a good one for really clarifying your thoughts on bayesian statistics and how it’s your state of knowledge that determines the probability.
Isn’t this just another way of saying “confirmation bias”?
About the only cure I’ve found for that is multiple personality disorder. Pretend you are trying to refute yourself, and want to find the strongest argument. Then pretend you have no opinion, and just want to understand the problem.
I find that helpful on personal issues. Pretend you’re your big brother, and looking for a solution for you. Solutions are obvious once you get your own ego and angst out of the way—once it isn’t your problem, but your little brother’s problem.
Jaynes talks about optional stopping from a statistical perspective, which makes for an interesting paper. I don’t think he was as clear on the solution as he needed to be. The issue is whether you know the data, or you just know that you passed a test where optional stopping was used. If you clearly identify the state of knowledge you are conditioning on, the problems go away. I think that paper is a good one for really clarifying your thoughts on bayesian statistics and how it’s your state of knowledge that determines the probability.