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minus-squarescarabine@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoConsider this: given two options, 10 polls with no bias, weighted by only past performance 20 polls, half biased, weighted by an arbitrary secondary metric to remove bias (which only trends the data towards an average) Which do you suppose would be more reliable?
Consider this: given two options,
Which do you suppose would be more reliable?