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47 Post author: AnnaSalamon 16 November 2011 06:03PM

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 17 November 2011 01:13:24AM 2 points [-]

Steven, or others: if someone were to do a survey of e.g. Berkeley math majors, or others who seem similar to the LW population, what odds would you give on the caffeine/Anne correlation holding up? This might be a good subject for bets and rationality practice.

Comment author: steven0461 17 November 2011 02:04:30AM *  3 points [-]

This might be a good subject for bets and rationality practice.

It sounds like a lot of effort for just one question. It would be easier to have someone transparently pick some science papers that people hadn't heard of, and then have people guess at what their conclusions were.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 20 November 2011 06:14:12PM 0 points [-]

This is a good idea; however, it is possible to update fairly strongly on the fact that a paper on the subject in question was published.