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Takers of the LW survey/census will respond as left-handed more often than the base rate

Created by Grognor on 2013-11-27; known on 2014-01-12; judged wrong by Grognor on 2014-01-19.

  • Grognor estimated 75% on 2013-11-27
  • Grognor said “Being as strict as feasible about “more often”: Wikipedia says “Globally, roughly 12% of men and 10% of women are left-handed.” So I’ll only count this as a yes if men report 13% or higher AND women 11% or higheron 2013-11-27
  • Grognor said “I am already suspecting that I was underconfident. oh wellon 2013-11-27
  • adbge estimated 60% on 2013-11-27
  • Grognor changed the deadline from “on 2013-01-11on 2013-11-27
  • gwern said “was there a left/right-handed question…?on 2013-12-04
  • gwern estimated 65% on 2013-12-04
  • CarlShulman estimated 63% on 2013-12-08
  • Michael Dickens estimated 60% on 2013-12-19
  • bendini estimated 80% and said “Left handed people are weird and the people in the LW community are weird. Therefore according to my flawed logic there will be a higher percentage of left handed respondents to the survey than there is in the general population.on 2013-12-27
  • Jayson Virissimo estimated 60% on 2013-12-30
  • fela estimated 57% on 2014-01-04
  • Grognor   judged this prediction wrong on 2014-01-19.
  • bendini said “did not see that comingon 2014-01-20