Eugine_Nier comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 December 2012 04:39:26AM 1 point [-]

My working theory is that they were trolling.

Comment author: Cakoluchiam 01 December 2012 09:30:26PM 0 points [-]

Either way, should we or shouldn't we have trusted the rest of their answers to be statistically reliable?

Comment author: EricHerboso 04 December 2012 12:10:26AM 1 point [-]

I see no reason to throw out their responses. They appear to just not be familiar with the terminology. To someone that does not know that "fair coin" is defined as having .5 probability for each side, they might envision it as a real physical coin that doesn't have two heads.