Pavitra comments on Just Try It: Quantity Trumps Quality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 04 April 2011 08:54:51PM 0 points [-]

The scoring rule for group B is critically underspecified -- are they being graded on the best pot they produce? The worst? The mean? The median?

You should hold off on proposing solutions, but you also need to get around to actually trying the proposed solution.

I was under the impression that the whole point of holding off on proposing solutions was to make sure you came up with more than one idea.