Would there be interest in a sub about making future predictions?
submitted 3 years ago * by Aureus from (self.AskSaidIt)
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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
Here's the problem: If you have enough of anybody making enough guesses about the future, odds are given any event at least someone is going to be correct. In fact given enough 50/50 questions you can expect over the long term to be right about half of the time, which from a cursory glance certainly seems to be what the top users have been doing. Though the rankings are really obscuring that.
Anyway, I don't see a point.
[–]Harf_Grifter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
Whoa whoa whoa back up there bud—you’re assuming that potential users of such a sub appreciate “statistics” and “logic”. Maybe some of us just want to live our best emotional lives.
[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Probably. If one desires to live as the animals and give up the products of reason there is plenty of wilderness. Can't say I ever understood such people.
[–]Harf_Grifter 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
I desire to live like a pampered domestic cat. Does that count?
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