army1987 comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: scav 08 November 2012 05:25:31PM 0 points [-]

Nah, rot13 helps avoid casual spoilers but it doesn't count as not publishing the answers.

You could probably devise a code that requires non-trivial cryptanalysis and encrypt any discussion of the answers using that, and not publish the solution to the encryption. Then someone else can post here asking how to crack it, and so on ad nauseam.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 November 2012 12:18:52AM 0 points [-]

Rot-13 would prevent unintentional cheating, and I can't see the point of intentional cheating, as anything you could achieve through that you could achieve by photoshopping the results page.