Drahflow comments on Shut Up And Guess - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Yvain 21 July 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: Drahflow 21 July 2009 11:30:39PM *  2 points [-]

Easy way out: Flip a coin for each answer.

Obviously the author of the test cannot possibly know how your coin falls, so you get a true probabilistic chance for each answer.

This is basically the same idea as for randomized quicksort: To guard against malicious data, make your algorithm unpredictable.