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Comment author: pinyaka 18 November 2013 08:26:15PM 2 points [-]

Instead of Yes/No on the "will you buy it" question, you might add options like "maybe >50%" and "maybe <50%." There's a definite chance that I will buy the one that I'm voting for, but it's less than 50% so I'm just going to answer "no."

Comment author: scott_from_castify 19 November 2013 01:29:27AM 1 point [-]

I suppose what we'd really like to know is the expected value of of each sequence so we can do the one with the highest expected revenue. We could have asked you to put probabilities of purchasing each sequence next to the name of the sequence. Maybe next time…