anonym comments on Information cascades - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Johnicholas 06 March 2009 04:08AM

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Comment author: anonym 08 March 2009 10:09:53PM 3 points [-]

Great idea. One potential problem though for these sorts of experiments is that knowledge (or reasonable suspicion) of the experiments would alter users' behavior.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 08 March 2009 11:32:56PM *  2 points [-]

Yes, but I'm hoping using a randomly selected minority posts or comments would help, and I'd expect our estimations as to which posts have been raised or lowered would be interestingly inaccurate. Maybe we could submit our guesses along with the probability we assign to each guess, then the calibration test results could be posted... :-)