Re: Game time

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15.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:25 AM
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53


Posted by: real ffeJ annaH | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:42 AM
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104! I'm so excited to add this to my pile of nonlucrative skills.


Posted by: E. Messily | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:42 AM
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omg @ the scoreboard. 1st place has to be a bot...


Posted by: real ffeJ annaH | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:45 AM
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I got 74, but it's too boring to play again.


Posted by: Buttercup | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:47 AM
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It's no comment thread of hardcore right-wingers.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:50 AM
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7, with a mean error (which seems like the more interesting data point) of 0.17.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:53 AM
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Did any of you get an intuition whether the difficulty increased as you went?


Posted by: real ffeJ annaH | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:54 AM
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"More interesting" partly because I don't have any idea how the scoring works. "Mean error" I understand.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 9:55 AM
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How long does this go on? Forever, until you screw up three times in a row?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:00 AM
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I mean, I'm up to 81 now, but it keeps on giving me more lives.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:04 AM
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Well, people would probably do better if every time you got one wrong you had to read a Jonah Goldberg article.


Posted by: Buttercup | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:07 AM
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112. and i was up around 100 with three lives, because as LB says if you get close it keeps giving you more lives. Just takes one cold streak, though, and I (obviously) lost focus.


Posted by: Osgood Yousbad | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:07 AM
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Crapped out at 117.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:09 AM
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If there was a systematic pattern to the ones that were hard, it was correlations between .2 and .5. I was pretty good at "There is basically nothing there" and different levels of fairly strong correlation. But the difference between a vaguely x=y oriented blob that meant .2 and one that meant up to around .6 was hard for me to see.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:12 AM
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I crapped out fast (I never actually took a stats class, so I was flying semi-blind--I really didn't know what 0.5 would look like), but 15 was my experience as well.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:14 AM
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Wow, now I'm glad I was bad at this game.


Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:15 AM
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15, 16- me too.


Posted by: E. Messily | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:23 AM
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My high score is five. I don't get the point of looking at this for the 'r'. The r comes out in a nice little number. You look at the plot for the skew and none looked like they had a problem.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:24 AM
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Since it scores at errors of 0.05 and 0.1 the really correlated ones are simple because if it's basically a line just guess 0.95 (never guess more than that obvs). Agreed the 0.2 to 0.4 are the hard ones, I also had more trouble when the slope was not 1. 55 on the first try, then see 5 above.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:27 AM
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This reminds me of a Reddit thread where someone asked if their professor was right to argue that R^2 was a poor regression diagnostic.


Posted by: Trivers | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:41 AM
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I really didn't know what 0.5 would look like

It's very helpful to read the "about" page which gives some samples.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:55 AM
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I got 91 on my first try and thought it was interesting, but quickly got boring.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 10:57 AM
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22 is cheating, obviously.


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 12:03 PM
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21!


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 12:06 PM
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Comment 21, that is. I haven't played yet.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 12:07 PM
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I stopped at just over 100 with 3 hearts and a mean error of 0.06. I should be taken more seriously by the scientific community, although, in keeping with my skepticism, I almost always guessed low.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 12:26 PM
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If I die of DVT in my workplace restroom it will be because of that Rop game ogged linked to.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 2:34 PM
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I didn't make it past "please enter a username." My answer was "no", but you need to have three characters.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 02- 1-16 11:19 PM
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