Clarity comments on Lesswrong 2016 Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 27 March 2016 08:35:09AM 8 points [-]

META

  • Why are some people upvoted more or less than others? I predicted I would be far less upvoted than others because of my controversiality but I am one of the highest upvoted here. From memory, this can't be explained by the recency of others posting that they have completed the survey. In light of what I see here, I will re-evaluate my entire post history. If people are biased towards me rather than away, that changes my entire posting strategy.
Comment author: SquirrelInHell 27 March 2016 08:42:51AM 3 points [-]

Are you going to agree with everyone now, because it's more controversial to do so?

Comment author: RowanE 27 March 2016 10:33:09AM 4 points [-]

I see 20-30 (didn't count) comments in the thread so far, probably people are too lazy to upvote every one more than they vet who they upvote here, I think.

Comment author: Vaniver 27 March 2016 04:44:01PM 8 points [-]

This has come up before. Then, it looked like gwern and I both got a boost from name recognition, but for everyone else it was just dependent on when they took the survey.

If I come by every day and upvote everyone, before I come that day a fraction of the people will have upvotes from me and another fraction won't, determined by time. Now add a bunch of people doing similar things but at different schedules (or only upvoting everyone who took it before they did, and not anyone who took it after, because they don't come back to this page).

Comment author: gjm 27 March 2016 07:08:49PM 9 points [-]

Yup. Pretty sure the dominant thing is just that people who report having taken the survey earlier get more upvotes.

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