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evand comments on [META] Retributive downvoting: Why? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: evand 28 November 2012 10:57:30PM 5 points [-]

Do you have evidence that favors that hypothesis relative to "The general improvement in the sanity waterline at LW is sufficiently small and poorly distributed as to make no difference among a large fraction of users when it comes to emotionally charged topics, even though both the mean and median user has raised their sanity level."?

Comment author: MrMind 29 November 2012 11:32:32AM -1 points [-]

No, I don't have enough data to discern between the two, but I think in measuring the rationality level I am/was assigning a higher weight to the charged topic like relationship between member of the opposite sex and the image LW projects against mainstream communities.