Preventive Health Care
As Robin has pointed out before, there isn’t a lot of evidence that so-called preventive health-care is worthwhile. A recent NY Times op-ed by Dartmouth professor H. Gilbert Welch, author of "Should I...
View ArticleThe Hypocrisy-Charge Bias
There is a type of a bias that is so common in political commentary that it deserves a name. An example of this bias is exhibited by Brian Tamanaha over at the Balkinization Blog. Tamanaha notes that...
View ArticleFalse false dichotomies
Jed Harris wrote, in one of his otherwise very insightful comments: (Incidentally, there probably is no viable distinction between cognitive structure and content.) This statement is true, in that...
View ArticleTyler on Cryonics
My friend and colleague Tyler Cowen is smart, well-traveled, writes on cultural diversity, and manages a large organization. If his political writings forced him to flee for his life to live in "off...
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Robin Hanson “Flicking through Robin’s thoughts … you start to feel the ground shifting beneath you” (UK Observer, 26Mar95 ) Do you find it hard to summarize yourself in a few words? Me too. But I love...
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Welcome to Overcoming Bias! Overcoming Bias began in November ’06 as a group blog on the general theme of how to move our beliefs closer to reality, in the face of our natural biases such as...
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