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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I do agree with what you're saying, but I'd also take the survey results with a grain of salt: they've carefully chosen the framing and available choices to bias us to the wrong answers. e.g. the correct answers are often an extreme choice amongst the options
Sure. Still: worse than chance (or, more recently, a little better than chance) is not an impressive showing. If someone showed me their method for getting 9% on MNIST I wouldn't be impressed, even if they convincingly argued there are biases in the data set.
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Yup like I said - I agree with what you're saying! :) I just wish the questions had been designed differently. It makes sense that the extremely fast change in global socio-economic status, plus negative-focused news, means people on average under-estimate global development.
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