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reactordevyesterday at 10:00 PM6 repliesview on HN

correctness is not the point. binary choice is the whole point. because my blue may not be your blue...


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eikenberryyesterday at 10:15 PM

It should probably alternate between blue/notblue... green/notgreen. I hit the same wall. Second question asked if blue/green when it was neither... and I really mean neither. I don't see cyan as a shade of blue or green, rather much like I don't see green as a shade of blue or yellow.

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ajkjkyesterday at 10:26 PM

There's no way for me to answer truthfully whether teal is blue or green. It is neither. Anything I give gives a false answer. The data is invalid.

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svntyesterday at 11:14 PM

But reproducibility should be the point. As a result of the structure it approaches an asymptote from one side or the other. I took it once and approached from green and my greenness was 77%, a second time it approached from blue and my blueness was 68%.

A test that allows an answer of neither would deliver more information (transition points and an error bar) without failing to identify a distribution in the population taking the test.

Suppaflytoday at 3:49 AM

>correctness is not the point. binary choice is the whole point. because my blue may not be your blue...

Realistically there is a broad range that we all can acknowledge is neither, but is instead teal, and forcing a binary choice means people just choose randomly.

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ImprovedSilencetoday at 1:00 AM

It's so remarkable how many people here refuse to understand your point. It's like, there is no right or wrong, no perfect score, just pure subjectiveness, and they can't handle it. If I wasn't convinced this site is entirely bots before, I might be now....

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