ChristianKl comments on Participation in the LW Community Associated with Less Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 09 December 2012 11:04:21PM *  6 points [-]

Looking, like before, at number of missing answers (which seems like an awful good proxy for how much time one puts into the survey), the people who were right on the first question answer 1 more question but that small difference doesn't reach statistical significance:

R> lw <- read.csv("2012.csv")
R> lw$MissingAnswers <- apply(lw, 1, function(x) sum(sapply(x, function(y) is.na(y) || as.character(y)==" ")))
R> right <- lw[as.character(lw$CFARQuestion1) == "Yes",]$MissingAnswers
R> wrong <- lw[as.character(lw$CFARQuestion1) == "no" | as.character(lw$CFARQuestion1) == "Cannot be determined",]$MissingAnswers
R> t.test(right, wrong)
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: right and wrong
t = -1.542, df = 942.5, p-value = 0.1234
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
-2.3817 0.2858
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y
16.69 17.74

(I'm not going to look at the other questions unless someone really wants me to, since the first question is the one that would benefit the most from some extended thought, unlike the others.)

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 December 2012 08:18:30PM 1 point [-]

How do you get this nice box for the code? What's the magic command that you have to tell the Wiki?

Comment author: gwern 10 December 2012 08:50:33PM 4 points [-]

Markdown code syntax is indent each line by >=4 spaces; LW's implementation is subtly broken since it's stripping all the internal indentation, and another gotcha is that you can't have any trailing whitespace or lines will be combined in a way you probably don't want.

MediaWiki syntax is entirely different and partially depends on what extensions are enabled.