Just out of curiosity, what would you have done if he’d published and linked to the incorrect results? While this version of the story causes you some social damage (gwern is deceptive), wouldn’t the damage have been much worse if he’d passed the confirmation bias test?
I was monitoring my email and RSS closely the night I sent the email. I had already written and proofread the real version, and written an email explaining I had discovered a mistake; so to change my site was just a matter of issuing a single revision-control command (darcs rollback) & re-syncing my site, and then sending the email. I don’t think the bad version would have been up for more than 10 or 20 minutes past him posting or replying clearly that he would post it.
Just out of curiosity, what would you have done if he’d published and linked to the incorrect results? While this version of the story causes you some social damage (gwern is deceptive), wouldn’t the damage have been much worse if he’d passed the confirmation bias test?
I was monitoring my email and RSS closely the night I sent the email. I had already written and proofread the real version, and written an email explaining I had discovered a mistake; so to change my site was just a matter of issuing a single revision-control command (
darcs rollback) & re-syncing my site, and then sending the email. I don’t think the bad version would have been up for more than 10 or 20 minutes past him posting or replying clearly that he would post it.