alyssavance comments on Test Your Calibration! - Less Wrong

19 Post author: alyssavance 11 November 2009 10:03PM

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Comment author: alyssavance 12 November 2009 08:36:38PM 0 points [-]

Noted, but I didn't write those questions, they were taken from the open-source MisterHouse project. If you know of any sources of free trivia questions that aren't US-specific please do PM me.

Comment author: Cyan 12 November 2009 08:43:00PM 3 points [-]

You can get a ton of free non-U.S.-specific trivia from the CIA World Factbook.

Comment author: Alicorn 12 November 2009 08:38:50PM 3 points [-]

It seems like it'd be pretty easy to write your own trivia questions by permitting yourself to surf Wikipedia for a while and extract facts from the articles. What's the advantage to trivia questions you don't write yourself - just speed, or something else too?

Comment author: alyssavance 12 November 2009 10:38:59PM 5 points [-]

Just speed. At two minutes per trivia question it would take a full day to make another set of 250.