gwern comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: gwern 30 November 2012 05:19:50AM 7 points [-]

Were you expecting that people with high C would or wouldn't skip questions?

Wouldn't; that was the claim of the linked paper.

Is it feasible to compare wrong sort of answer with C?

Not really, if it wasn't caught by the no-answer check or the NA check.

Is it possible that the test for C wasn't very good?

As I said, it came out as expected for LW as a whole, and it did correlate with income once the CS salaries were removed... Hard to know what ground-truth there could be to check the scores against.