army1987 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: [deleted] 07 January 2012 07:05:58PM 0 points [-]

Indeed. The way the question is asked appear to suggest that the correct answer is either somewhere near A or somewhere near B, so if A and B were 1828 and 2012, or 1917 and 1918, the anchoring effects would be different.

Comment author: tgb 07 January 2012 10:55:13PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for pointing this out - this was not the intended reading.