tgb comments on [POLL] Wisdom of the Crowd experiment - Less Wrong

10 Post author: tgb 05 January 2012 10:13PM

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Comment author: tgb 06 January 2012 01:17:17AM 0 points [-]

Good suggestion. Your particular process would have difficulties - eg: the over-estimate answer being very popular could easily (and would with the current results) make the weighted average above the actual value so replacing the lower with the weighted average would make both answers too high.