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travisglines on March 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Results for: Pick a number from 1 to 10

It seems like publicizing some preliminary results of the study before the study is complete would put the legitimacy of the final results very much so at risk.

constructive criticism ... for science

alecperkins on March 28, 2011 | [–]

After 80k votes, it seemed prudent to give those asking "so what?" a response.

travisglines on March 28, 2011 | | [–]

If (as I'm sure you do) you have the times along with the votes it would be cool to see if there was actually a bias when comparing the before response and after response datasets.

impendia on March 28, 2011 | [–]

Yes, but so would (presumably extreme) sample bias.

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