nyan_sandwich comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Yvain 05 December 2011 10:49AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 December 2011 12:27:28AM 1 point [-]

I dunno how you would weight it. I think you'd want to have a maxentropy 'fair' judge at least for comparison.

Calibration questions are probably the least controversial way of weighting. Compare to, say, trying to weight using karma.

This might be an interesting thing to develop. A voting system backed up by solid bayes-math could be useful for more than just LW surveys.

Comment author: dlthomas 07 December 2011 12:29:02AM 0 points [-]

It might be interesting to see what results are produced by several weighting approaches.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 December 2011 12:34:16AM 1 point [-]

yeah. that's what I was getting at with the maxentropy judge.

On further thought, I really should look into figuring this out. Maybe I'll do some work on it and post a discussion post. This could be a great group rationality tool.