mstevens comments on How about testing our ideas? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mstevens 14 September 2012 01:54:17PM 1 point [-]

Possible use for this new thing: Seeing as we have had much recent discussion about what behaviour is, and is not, creepy, we could create a long list of potential behaviour, and study which people think it's creepy or not. And if it makes a difference if you ask first. (Question 492: So is it okay if I ask you out on a Wednesday... while wearing a tutu, and there are exactly 3.9 people in the room?)

Once we had this useful dataset, we could evaluate potential rules for social interaction ("okay, under your plan, 42% of women under 25 say they'll hate you, but with my scheme, 50% say they'll like you!") etc.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2012 02:07:00PM *  2 points [-]

Yes meta data and analysis on how to improve the site and community is low hanging fruit when it comes to research projects.