Vladimir_M comments on Less Wrong NYC: Case Study of a Successful Rationalist Chapter - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 19 March 2011 10:21:03PM 12 points [-]

How much do you actually communicate with people who are around the middle of the bell curve? In places like LW, people often have a very skewed perspective about the bottom three quartiles.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 20 March 2011 02:25:02AM 15 points [-]

My experience is that intelligent people overestimate the abilities of people around the middle.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/stupider-than-you-realize.html

Comment author: Nisan 20 March 2011 02:29:16AM 2 points [-]

Skewed which way?

Comment author: Vladimir_M 20 March 2011 03:09:51AM 8 points [-]

It's skewed in several ways, each of which would be a complex topic in its own right. In this particular context, I have the impression that nazgulnarsil's idea of what the middle of the distribution looks like would correspond more exactly to somewhat higher percentiles.