Vaniver comments on Less Wrong Polls in Comments - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 19 September 2012 05:20:51PM *  4 points [-]

Trying to put two kinds of polls together:

How many bugs will I find?

The code for that was |poll:number|{all of them}{none of them}, with the pipes replaced by square brackets. It looks like the interior poll type takes precedence, which is probably what should happen, but it might be better to complain instead.

Submitting...

Comment author: ewang 22 September 2012 05:33:20AM 0 points [-]

Mean 1.69172935902e+16

What use is the mean if anyone can just do something like this?

Comment author: [deleted] 22 September 2012 08:22:39PM 5 points [-]

Yeah, scrap the mean, and show the 1st and 3rd quartile in addition to the median.

Comment author: ewang 22 September 2012 05:34:42AM 0 points [-]

Point already raised and discussed, see below.