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Opinion Space
- mapleoin 18y agoI hate RIAs. The feeling seems to be mutual as the app just went blank after the first message box.
- SamReidHughes 18y agoMore interesting than flattening the set of opinions down to two dimensions would be to see how many dimensions there really were. Another problem is that people who answer the miniessay question with a negative response get their answers rated lower, because saying "No" isn't as attractive an answer as "Yes, because ...".
- dkarl 18y agoExchanging ideas? No way. Interesting viewpoints, if they stand out at all, will manifest as odd data points that are indistinguishable from user error. This is only useful for studying large groups of people in aggregate and characterizing them according to ideas already understood by the experimenters. I.e., it's just a fancy way of gathering and visualizing polling data, and it doesn't seem very original. What are the odds that political consultants haven't already applied PCA to polling data (and probably been disappointed with the results)?