At then end of a year, which hospital will have the greater number of days in which more than 60% of the girls born over both hospitals were born at that hospital
Ah! Yes, that makes sense. Though you’re right that the answer is obvious, assuming one hospital is much larger than the other, which I vaguely remember it was.
Oh well, way to make a good first impression.
(grin) More so than you might expect.
Hi, welcome to Less Wrong. We actually tend to respond pretty well to people who recognize and admit to goofs. We all do it from time to time, and it sure beats hell out of failing to recognize and admit to them.
That said, figuring out the failure mode and intervening to make it less likely in the future is even better. Any thoughts on that?
Someone made a post about this recently listing that and other useful practices (and I just saw you replied in there as well). I’ve heard about these checklists before but while I think it’s a pretty important habit to acquire I haven’t had the time yet to improve on those aspects nor have made of those an habit yet (i.e. I think it’s important to improve but I don’t actually remember to practice on my daily life).
Taking this checklist as an example, I think I can say that I failed to do 2.1 (when I said there were two probable interpretations without even asking myself the meanings of the 2nd one) while correctly doing 1.5 (when I perceived that I was mistaken and admitted to it instead of arguing for a side).
Would you know any tips on (or any texts about) perceiving these cognitive flaws while they are being committed or shortly after so one can promptly deal with them?
A rule of thumb I find very helpful when evaluating statements is to ask myself what I would expect to experience differently if it were true or false, and to ask myself what I would endorse doing differently if I knew it were true or false. Frequently, what this makes me realize is that I don’t actually understand the statement… which is particularly embarrassing when I’m the one who said it.
Ah! Yes, that makes sense. Though you’re right that the answer is obvious, assuming one hospital is much larger than the other, which I vaguely remember it was.
(grin) More so than you might expect.
Hi, welcome to Less Wrong. We actually tend to respond pretty well to people who recognize and admit to goofs. We all do it from time to time, and it sure beats hell out of failing to recognize and admit to them.
That said, figuring out the failure mode and intervening to make it less likely in the future is even better. Any thoughts on that?
Someone made a post about this recently listing that and other useful practices (and I just saw you replied in there as well). I’ve heard about these checklists before but while I think it’s a pretty important habit to acquire I haven’t had the time yet to improve on those aspects nor have made of those an habit yet (i.e. I think it’s important to improve but I don’t actually remember to practice on my daily life).
Taking this checklist as an example, I think I can say that I failed to do 2.1 (when I said there were two probable interpretations without even asking myself the meanings of the 2nd one) while correctly doing 1.5 (when I perceived that I was mistaken and admitted to it instead of arguing for a side).
Would you know any tips on (or any texts about) perceiving these cognitive flaws while they are being committed or shortly after so one can promptly deal with them?
A rule of thumb I find very helpful when evaluating statements is to ask myself what I would expect to experience differently if it were true or false, and to ask myself what I would endorse doing differently if I knew it were true or false. Frequently, what this makes me realize is that I don’t actually understand the statement… which is particularly embarrassing when I’m the one who said it.