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pjot on July 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Research recitation: A first look at rote learning...

Maybe it’s just a more honest representation of a typical result?

Looking at it the other way around, had they chose _perfect_ examples there’d be similar criticism about “cherry picking”.

iudqnolq on July 3, 2021 [–]

Fair enough, although it makes me think that if these are the better examples the average is much worse.

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