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TheOtherDave comments on Simple embodied cognition hacks - Less Wrong Discussion

46 Post author: curiousepic 23 March 2011 01:24PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 March 2011 04:28:09AM 6 points [-]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I upvote when I see something I want more of, and I comment when I have something to say. The two are not particularly well correlated, as far as I can tell, nor would I expect them to be.

Comment author: komponisto 24 March 2011 09:17:55PM *  0 points [-]

The variable that links them is having read the post. I suspect that JenniferRM's confusion, which I share, stems from the belief that comment numbers and upvote numbers both indicate how much interest there is in the post, but in a case like this those two metrics conflict with each other.