...but I still think that it’s appropriate for people to reduce their trust in my conclusions if I’m getting “irrelevant details” wrong. If I notice an author make errors that I happen to notice, I’m going to raise my estimate for how many errors they’ve made that I didn’t notice
This makes sense, but I don’t think this is bad. In particular, I’m unsure about my own error rate, and maybe I do want to let people estimate my unknown-error rate as a function of my “irrelevant details” error rate.
This makes sense, but I don’t think this is bad. In particular, I’m unsure about my own error rate, and maybe I do want to let people estimate my unknown-error rate as a function of my “irrelevant details” error rate.
I also don’t think it’s bad. Did I imply that I thought it was bad for people to update in this way? (I might be misunderstanding what you meant.)
Reading it again, you didn’t