gwern comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Yvain 03 November 2012 11:00PM

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Comment author: gwern 04 November 2012 12:28:48AM 51 points [-]

Muflax offers his feedback on some of the survey questions:

  • Treat the three digit number that you just wrote down as a length, in feet. Is the height of the tallest redwood tree in the world more or less than the number that you wrote down?: Feet! Fuck you, barbarians. I refuse to answer.
  • What is your best guess about the height of the tallest redwood tree in the world (in feet)?: Why not beard-seconds? Seriously, fuck you.
  • ...Height: 185cm (oh, now you can use sane units, you stupid imperialist pig-dogs)
Comment author: [deleted] 05 November 2012 03:22:28AM 11 points [-]

Upvoted for "beard-seconds."

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2012 03:18:06PM -1 points [-]

Sane units for someone's height are metres, not centimetres! :-)

Comment author: tut 04 November 2012 01:20:48PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I also assumed that it was meters at first. That would have been a low guess.