gwern comments on Experiment Idea Thread - Spring 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 11 May 2011 02:34:28PM 0 points [-]

When I asked back in September 2010, you said

They're ad hoc, we've used one for a dual n-back study which ended up yielding insufficient data....We didn't study long enough to get any statistically significant data. Like, not even close....really, there's no information there, no matter how much Bayes magic you use

So at least your memory has been consistent over the last 9 months.