gwern comments on 1001 PredictionBook Nights - Less Wrong

51 Post author: gwern 08 October 2011 04:04PM

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Comment author: gwern 11 October 2011 08:15:35PM 2 points [-]

Yes, I remember that study - it wasn't as long term as I would like, and I always wonder about the quality of a study conducted by students, but it was interesting anyway.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 October 2011 08:19:31PM *  3 points [-]

The last time I cited this study, I remember that their sample size was well under thirty for each of their pundits. At that level, what's the point of statistics?

Comment author: gwern 25 August 2012 11:29:13PM *  2 points [-]

If the effect size is large enough, 30 observations is plenty & enough to do stats on. Go through a power calculation sometime with, say, d=0.7.