Comment on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014

Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:48:28 GMT

Two reactions to this.

First, I think that the high variance and the noise are just characteristics of real life. People are different AND incoherent AND impulsive AND prone to change their mind.

Even if you manage to gather enough data to form some reasonable central estimates, the variance will remain huge.

Second, it's not clear to me what kind of an answer do you hope to get. Technically you are asking a simple yes/no question and the answer to it is obviously "yes", but between that and a full-blown model of human behavior in relationships I am not sure what are you looking for. Can you give an example of what an answer (not necessarily a correct one) might look like?

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