shminux comments on LW Women- Crowdsourced research on Cognitive biases and gender - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 February 2013 10:30:53PM 2 points [-]

Which is the case probably 80% of the time or more, when I get to check this assumption.

How well do you know that's 80%? If you would now commit to writing down the next 100 results of such guesses, how confident (what p value) would you be that between 70 and 90 times it's a woman?

Comment author: shminux 12 February 2013 02:27:52AM 1 point [-]

Why?

Comment author: blashimov 12 February 2013 07:04:16AM 1 point [-]

You might be remembering the times you are correct more clearly than the times you are wrong.

Comment author: shminux 12 February 2013 07:09:53AM 2 points [-]

I thought about it, but I think I remember being surprised better than being right. But who knows, I did not keep count.