Re: Opinions as Evidence

From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu May 08 1997 - 16:41:12 MDT

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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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