daenerys comments on LessWrong IQ Survey - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Blackened 02 December 2012 09:53PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 December 2012 04:07:13AM *  18 points [-]

Mean 89222.75
Median 137.0

Somebody's being a douchebag.

If you don't like a topic, proper responses can include: 1) Don't participate, 2) Downvote, 3) Make a comment saying why you dislike discussion of the topic.

The proper response is NOT to sabotage the topic.

The reason this site maintains relatively high levels of rational discourse, rather than trolling and flame wars, etc, is because we all do our best to follow the social contract of this site. Breaking the contract (via actions such as sabotaging polls, karmassassination, etc) pushes the LW dynamic away from all the things we like (open, reasoned discussion, thoughtful ideas, etc) and towards the things we don't like (i.e. 4chan)

tl;dr- Don't be a douchebag.

Comment author: Blackened 03 December 2012 10:12:03AM 2 points [-]

We can still view the individual responses and ignore this one.

Comment author: Blackened 03 December 2012 10:26:58AM 1 point [-]

Fortunately, we can still view individual replies.

Comment author: gjm 03 December 2012 04:34:45PM 3 points [-]

If at least one person is being obnoxious enough to enter completely nonsensical numbers, then probably some people are being less blatantly obnoxious -- e.g., entering plausible but wrong answers (such as their own estimates of their IQ). Not that any poll of this sort is immune to such things.