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		foxhill on Sept 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new ha... > If you know the biases.. indeed. > for instance by asking people directly.. a terrible way of accounting for bias. people are often unaware of the bias they impart on what they say.

loup-vaillant on Sept 18, 2013 [–]

Of course. Selective memory would still be a problem, for instance. But you would get rid of self selection. Though if you just ask your friends, you will have another kind of selection bias…

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