You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Daniel_Burfoot comments on Needed: A large database of statements for true/false exercises - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Academian 13 April 2012 02:26AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (17)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 13 April 2012 02:46:46AM 8 points [-]

Download a bunch of historical stock price information, then ask questions like "Did company X's stock go up the day after event Y?" (Did IBM go up after the Berlin Wall fell?)

Comment author: Academian 13 April 2012 06:32:37PM 1 point [-]

Hmm... this made me think that perhaps two-choice questions are better than true/false questions, because when all the questions have the same two possible answers T/F, there is a base rate of how often the answer "T" is correct which the player should account for. For real life questions with two possible answers like "Who is taller, Alex or Bob?", there is not really a well-known base rate.

Thanks!

Comment author: Alsadius 14 April 2012 02:49:43PM 0 points [-]

The problem is, that's too obscure for most people to even have intuition for it.