satt comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 04 February 2013 09:29:19PM *  1 point [-]

Just so. These are the sort of "inter-individual variation in hedonic spoiler effects" I had in mind earlier.

Edit: to elaborate a bit, it was the "error bars look large enough" bit of your earlier comment that triggered my sceptical "Really?" reaction. Apart from that bit I agree(d) with you!

Edit 2: aha, I probably did misunderstand you earlier. I originally interpreted your error bars comment as a comment on the statistical significance of the pairwise differences in bar length, but I guess you were actually ballparking the population standard deviation of spoiler effect from the sample size and the standard errors of the means.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 February 2013 04:56:34AM *  1 point [-]

These are the sort of "inter-individual variation in hedonic spoiler effects" I had in mind earlier.

Huh. For some reason I had read that as "intra-individual". Whatever happened to the "assume people are saying something reasonable" module in my brain?

 I guess you were actually ballparking the population standard deviation of spoiler effect from the sample size and the standard errors of the means.

Yep.