Re: Opinions as Evidence

Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Thu, 8 May 1997 15:41:12 -0700 (PDT)

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Crosby_M writes:
>BUT, after rereading your abstract, it seems that you're really
>describing how to measure the average bias *between* competing
>evidence or arguments,

No, average bias is the error in a person's estimate of some quantity,
averaged over the possible states of nature.

Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/

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