In general I'd like to see a lot more of people writing about their

failures in addition to their successes. If a bunch of people all try

a thing and have mixed results, and only the people with good results

write about it, people who don't know about this selection bias or

don't realize its extent are going to end up with overly positive

views. I've

written

about

some

of

my

mistakes, and I

think it would be good if this were a higher fraction of my posts.

On the other hand, once other people are involved this isn't entirely

up to me. One place this comes up a lot is parenting: I don't want to write things about my

kids that they don't (or won't) want public. This is especially

tricky if I write a post about something we've tried which worked well

in part [...]

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October 13th, 2024

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fumRBCtRvEnFiDop4/parental-writing-selection-bias

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