maia comments on [POLL] Do You Feel Oppressed? - Less Wrong

6 Post author: maia 03 May 2012 02:42AM

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Comment author: maia 03 May 2012 03:31:18AM 3 points [-]

You're absolutely right! That's obvious, I should have put that in. I'll add those questions in. Hopefully those folks who took it already will be kind enough to retake, or a lot more will take it after the change.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 03 May 2012 11:04:42AM 1 point [-]

How will it affect the statistics you gather if people "retake" a test they've already taken?

I'm always confused when I see people mention changing a poll after they've already started it.

Comment author: maia 03 May 2012 01:09:08PM 2 points [-]

I agree. This seemed like an important and obvious enough addition that I should do it anyway, though.

As Normal_Anomaly says, the plan is to throw out the old data. Strictly speaking, I probably shouldn't mix it with the new, anyway. (It's possible there would be a slightly different bias to it without the additional questions.)

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 03 May 2012 12:28:28PM 2 points [-]

Presumably maia will throw out the data from before the change to avoid double counting.