orthonormal comments on Survey Results - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Yvain 12 May 2009 10:09PM

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 13 May 2009 03:10:10PM *  5 points [-]

I believe in the wisdom of crowds, but I also think that your actions were screwing up the results.

If you weren't going to take a question seriously, I wish you wouldn't have answered it at all.

ADDED: I decided not to downvote you because I don't want to discourage being honest/forthcoming.

Comment author: kpreid 13 May 2009 04:18:03PM 4 points [-]

0% confidence should mean zero weight when computing the results, no?

Comment author: orthonormal 13 May 2009 06:28:06PM 1 point [-]

That's an interesting idea, but I think Yvain just averaged the answers without regard to confidence.