How are you defining "objective" in relation to someone's inherently subjective utility function? That makes no sense.
I understand the rest of your point, but the underlying assumption is very wrong.
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I understand the rest of your point, but the underlying assumption is very wrong.
This is the opposite of how useful research and/or data science works. Data should be taken as is and then learned from. It certainly should not be gathered in an effort to directly prove a conclusion that you are already "convinced" of.
It's very disheartening to see this as a comment on a data science article on hacker news... unless you're being sarcastic/ironic? This has to be sarcastic/ironic, right? Right? :(
"Bias is an inclination of temperament or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of view."
Also, it's hard to believe that this would substantially decrease the amount of water heated. If you were super anal about only heating the water needed, then that's do-able with a tea kettle. If you're not, then even under the new model you would probably just use a kettle or pot most of the time.