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eps on Feb 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The strange case of the inverted chart

By the way, regarding inverted charts per se.

There is an anecdote of one physicist showing an X-Y chart to another. Latter elegantly explains the phenomena, but then the first guy says "oh, you are looking at it upside-down", to which the other guy says - "ah, now it makes even more sense."

gjm11 on Feb 5, 2012 [–]

That's a failure mode that's had quite a bit of attention at Less Wrong; see e.g. http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/ and http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence... .

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