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		luddit3 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A graph that should be front-page news The argument is that when a data point comes from a source with such an obvious bias, the data point is called into question.
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kelseyfrog 10 days ago [–]

The beautiful thing about evidence is that it's able to be evaluated on its own merit.

Adding heuristics trades accuracy for speed. It's fine to be overloaded and rely on heuristics, but let's call them what they are, shortcuts.

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