Jiro comments on 2014 Survey Results - Less Wrong

87 Post author: Yvain 05 January 2015 07:36PM

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Comment author: Jiro 05 January 2015 07:44:40PM *  7 points [-]

I think the computer games result has to do with it being a bad question. There are many legitimate answers depending on how you interpret the question, including my answer that Minesweeper sells as a bundle with Windows and thus has probably sold more copies than anything else.

Comment author: Vulture 06 January 2015 12:45:24AM 4 points [-]

Is it really a "bad question"? Shouldn't a good calibrator be able to account for model error?

Comment author: devas 06 January 2015 09:11:45AM 1 point [-]

Depends on whether you consider "being able to comprehensively understand questions that may be misleading" to be a subset of calibration skills.

Comment author: devas 06 January 2015 09:12:12AM 0 points [-]

Good point, I hadn't thought of that.