From a6fe55e42ec02810878ff76ffadb0190a5f752cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:24:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] check in stub for "Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean" (This one will require a bit of math that I've seen the outline of for a long time, but hadn't yet got around to mastering.) --- .../imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md diff --git a/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md b/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3b0be7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/imperfect-trait-measurements-regress-to-the-mean.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Title: Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: epistemology +Status: draft + +(a focused post explaining this slight _technical_ countercounterpoint to the morally-laudable "treat everyone as an individual" canard; use the example of guessing people's height on seeing them from afar; do the actual conjugate-prior calculation—maybe even in both directions) + +study material: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/courses/260-spring10/lectures/lecture5.pdf -- 2.17.1