Comments on: My Guatemala Interviews http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/my-guatemala-in.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:09:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Robin Hanson http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/my-guatemala-in.html#comment-412278 Robin Hanson Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:03:10 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/11/my-guatemala-interviews.html#comment-412278 Mike, I presume there is, though I'm too close to myself to be a good judge. I suppose I like big neglected topics where I can use modestly formal techniques to make a clear contribution. Mike, I presume there is, though I’m too close to myself to be a good judge. I suppose I like big neglected topics where I can use modestly formal techniques to make a clear contribution.

]]> By: Mike Kenny http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/my-guatemala-in.html#comment-412277 Mike Kenny Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:11:43 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/11/my-guatemala-interviews.html#comment-412277 1. I like the bit about fiction being a good way of getting across an idea, if not discovering truths. I wonder if a college department might benefit from hiring novelists to novelize the ideas of the members of the department, for publicity! 2. I do think fiction gets a little beat up on though in the interview. Isn't the activity of hypothesizing basically 'fiction writing' of a sort. A good imagination could help create many frames through which a research project could look, helping to overcome cognitive-frame-blindness. Of course, the actual collecting of data wouldn't be a process of fiction-writing. 3. I recall in your interview with Russ Roberts mentioning you liked to take many different pieces of data and try to craft a theory out of them as a whole rather than creating piecemeal theories for each datum. I thought during the this interview "Is there some unifying principle that explains your myriad interests?" :) 1. I like the bit about fiction being a good way of getting across an idea, if not discovering truths. I wonder if a college department might benefit from hiring novelists to novelize the ideas of the members of the department, for publicity!

2. I do think fiction gets a little beat up on though in the interview. Isn’t the activity of hypothesizing basically ‘fiction writing’ of a sort. A good imagination could help create many frames through which a research project could look, helping to overcome cognitive-frame-blindness. Of course, the actual collecting of data wouldn’t be a process of fiction-writing.

3. I recall in your interview with Russ Roberts mentioning you liked to take many different pieces of data and try to craft a theory out of them as a whole rather than creating piecemeal theories for each datum. I thought during the this interview “Is there some unifying principle that explains your myriad interests?” :)

]]> By: Different Jeff http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/my-guatemala-in.html#comment-412276 Different Jeff Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:48:30 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/11/my-guatemala-interviews.html#comment-412276 Interesting interview. I'm printing off your paper with Tyler to try to get the jist of the forthcoming book. Interesting interview. I’m printing off your paper with Tyler to try to get the jist of the forthcoming book.

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