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Viliam_Bur comments on Open Thread for January 17 - 23 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: niceguyanon 17 January 2014 01:26PM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 20 January 2014 11:20:55PM 5 points [-]

Just a meta idea: Treat values -1, 0, 1 as noise. Make a list of your upvoted commends, and another list of your downvoted comments. When you compare the lists, maybe you'll see some difference.

Comment author: ialdabaoth 20 January 2014 11:37:48PM 4 points [-]

Hmm. So far, I'm noticing more similarity between the extremes on both sides than I'm noticing with the 'noise' in the middle - i.e., it seems like I can roughly predict that a statement will have a large number of votes, but not in which direction.