William_Quixote comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Yvain 19 January 2014 02:51AM

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Comment author: jkaufman 19 January 2014 02:13:55PM 10 points [-]

Hypothesis: the predictions on the population of Europe are bimodal, split between people thinking of geographical Europe (739M) vs people thinking of the EU (508M). I'm going to go check the data and report back.

Comment author: William_Quixote 19 January 2014 03:21:07PM 3 points [-]

As one datapoint I went with Europe as EU so it's plausible others did too

Comment author: ahbwramc 20 January 2014 03:34:47AM 2 points [-]

Me too, at least sort of - I just had a number stored in my brain that I associated with "Europe." Turned out it was EU only, although I didn't have any confusion about the question - I thought I was answering for all of Europe.

Comment author: XiXiDu 19 January 2014 03:27:12PM 2 points [-]

As one datapoint I went with Europe as EU so it's plausible others did too

Same here.

Comment author: Nornagest 20 January 2014 03:48:31AM 0 points [-]

I also interpreted Europe as EU, although I was about 20% off that as well.