Douglas_Knight comments on Only You Can Prevent Your Mind From Getting Killed By Politics - Less Wrong

39 Post author: ChrisHallquist 26 October 2013 01:59PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 26 October 2013 04:47:48PM 8 points [-]

a minor typo:

median confidence ... is 79%, and the mean confidence is 90%.

That is impossible with confidence bounded by 100%. Take an extreme case: just over half the population puts 79%, half 100%. Then the mean is just under 89.5. I checked that you switched the mean and median.

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 26 October 2013 04:51:18PM 1 point [-]

Fixed.