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How seriously are YC interviews taken as genuine scientific experiments to identify predictors of success? What sort of experimental methodology is used? Do y
by amichail 17y ago
How seriously are YC interviews taken as genuine scientific experiments to identify predictors of success? What sort of experimental methodology is used? Do you compute p-values?
And if proper experimental methodology is not used, why not?
- pg 17y agoNot at all; none; no; because we don't quantify anything.
- amichail 17y agoBut perhaps you would make more money if you did?
- Keyframe 17y agoFrom what I gathered from both this and pg interview it's more like a casting call where everyone compares (mental) notes in the end, but only one is the casting director (jessica) where director (pg) can have input on the call, but he believes more in hers capability to judge than his on that call. Actually, that IS a casting call.
- amichail 17y agoWhy not subject whatever techniques Jessica (and others) is using during interviews to scientific scrutiny? Some methods might be more effective than others.
- neurotech1 17y agoBecause "social radar" can't be quantified. Instinct can't be quantified.
- xiaoma 17y agoyet
- pg 17y agoWe do try to analyze it, but not quantitatively.
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- aswanson 17y agoAmichail, I've said it before, you are in a class by yourself.