MichaelBishop comments on Time to See If We Can Apply Anything We Have Learned - Less Wrong

1 Post author: MichaelVassar 18 June 2009 10:06AM

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Comment author: Drahflow 18 June 2009 04:27:43PM 2 points [-]

A next step in setting up a decent experiment would be to select 4 groups (1, 2, 3 + Control) of people randomly. To give findings most applicable to rational people, we can just as well select within LW.

Another step: Select a common task the utility of which is perceived as high by most people on LW, yet which is seldomly performed.

Proposal: During two weeks, run for (at least) 10 Minutes on three of each four consecutive days.

Ideally, the experiment would then continue with another task, but switching group members. This improves the experiment via control for different motivation between participants. Also trying a different task gives us a chance to see if there is a general method or whether the method must be selected specific to the task.

If anybody is willing to participate in this experiment, I am willing to coordinate. If somebody else is willing (and more qualified) to coordinate, I hereby enlist as participant.

Qualification: I am a computer scientist, I have one contact to a psychology researcher, I feel competent in statistics. Then again I lost 20$ (of 100$) over 3 month in prediction markets.

Comment author: MichaelBishop 24 June 2009 09:52:32PM 0 points [-]

I would also join, but we should take Cousin_It's suggestions. And we should send our ideas to some psychologists for feedback.