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

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Comment author: Doradillo 07 January 2012 09:03:14PM 0 points [-]

Could this effect be used to find the approximate answer for unsolved questions, or does their need to be an answer?

Comment author: tgb 07 January 2012 10:50:22PM 0 points [-]

There are some websites that operates on the assumption that this works on unsolved problems. You can ask questions of unknowns (eg: "how many copies will my book sell?") and maybe get some useful information. I can't recall the names though.