What do our (supposed) intellectual elite know about human progress? Repost: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=165938533888688&id=100014176268390 … Intro excerpted belowpic.twitter.com/DRaMaYqnNy
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. @deftly_admiral points out that the statistics of the responses have changed since I wrote this (14 months ago), and are now a little bit better than random. Still very unimpressive, but would at least outperform a random number generator.
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A fair number of people seem to take this as personally impugning them if they get a low score. But with just 8 questions & s'times fine-grained categories, it's a mistake to read too much into an individual result (high or low). The overall statistics, OTOH, do seem interesting
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I.e., if you get a low (or high) score maybe you were just unlucky (or lucky). But when a large group of people get a low average score, that's pretty interesting, even accounting for the fact it's just an online poll.
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