I’m pretty sure that the −3 is just the initial downvote wave; it’ll climb back up to ~2 during the next 24hrs. Of course the fact that this discussion is in the comments might affect things.
I am part of the “initial downvote wave”. I downvoted the post because although the “Bayesian” hypothesis might be interesting to LessWrong, the academic articles linked to from the Slate article didn’t really support it., the Slate article was just written by some researcher trying to push their own research angle, and the LW post didn’t do any further analysis.
My advice when linking to something like this is to link directly to the academic paper and to draw your summary directly from the abstract of the paper, so that you don’t misrepresent what the paper claims. Popular science pieces normally write whatever they feel like and then link to a couple of vaguely related papers, so they can’t be trusted at all.
My advice when linking to something like this is to link directly to the academic paper and to draw your summary directly from the abstract of the paper, so that you don’t misrepresent what the paper claims.
I’m pretty sure that the −3 is just the initial downvote wave; it’ll climb back up to ~2 during the next 24hrs. Of course the fact that this discussion is in the comments might affect things.
I am part of the “initial downvote wave”. I downvoted the post because although the “Bayesian” hypothesis might be interesting to LessWrong, the academic articles linked to from the Slate article didn’t really support it., the Slate article was just written by some researcher trying to push their own research angle, and the LW post didn’t do any further analysis.
My advice when linking to something like this is to link directly to the academic paper and to draw your summary directly from the abstract of the paper, so that you don’t misrepresent what the paper claims. Popular science pieces normally write whatever they feel like and then link to a couple of vaguely related papers, so they can’t be trusted at all.
Hear, hear.