Adrian_Tschoegl

• Adrian_Tschoegl 11 Apr 2007 15:27 UTC

  1 point

  on: Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts

  Marginally zero-sum: kind of like publish-or perish?

• Adrian_Tschoegl 31 Mar 2007 22:14 UTC

  1 point

  on: “Statis­ti­cal Bias”

  Eliezer: glad you followed up on Robin’s suggestion to do this. The examples in my earlier post on “Useful Bias”, then involve resorting to systematic error to deal with problems arising out of processes with unsystematic errors. Similarly, the examples other commenters gave, such as alcoholics foreswearing all drinks or persons setting their watches five minutes early, would also be cases of using sytematic error to avoid problems caused by unsystematic errors.