To Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis: could you make some of the data freely available to the Natural Language Processing community?
If this is something that interests people, then it will be worth the time to automate this process. I suspect that there are blog entries, twitts, facebook updates that already answer these questions. Now we have to mine them. "Gold standard" set of Q/A would make it easier.
EDIT: But I hope there will be a way of getting Q/A in a bulk, right? Thanks
NOTE TO SELF: This could be a data mining or text mining web app. Check if the interest grows in time.
Try my app voicepolls.com, we are very much based on the theory of crowds. If you intend to pursue this further you should give us a call and try our API. We do predictive analysis and have a very large active community!
This seems to be more about subjective-but-quantifiable questions [like this](https://approachio.com/question/7/a), whereas WA only does objective questions.
A quick look at your site and it's clear you don't get point #2 Independence as you're showing people the prior avg before they submit their answer. I'll bet your site will suffer from a lack of #1 Diversity of opinion as well, as most websites tend to gather abnormally high concentrations of like minded people just through the natural ways they acquire and accrete audience.
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[ 79.2 ms ] story [ 1089 ms ] threadIf this is something that interests people, then it will be worth the time to automate this process. I suspect that there are blog entries, twitts, facebook updates that already answer these questions. Now we have to mine them. "Gold standard" set of Q/A would make it easier.
EDIT: But I hope there will be a way of getting Q/A in a bulk, right? Thanks
NOTE TO SELF: This could be a data mining or text mining web app. Check if the interest grows in time.
e.g.
https://approachio.com/question/7/how-long-should-the-averag...
If that's too hard, at least understand the summary on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Four_eleme...
A quick look at your site and it's clear you don't get point #2 Independence as you're showing people the prior avg before they submit their answer. I'll bet your site will suffer from a lack of #1 Diversity of opinion as well, as most websites tend to gather abnormally high concentrations of like minded people just through the natural ways they acquire and accrete audience.
I was hoping that because there are many answers above the folder, it might negate information cascading.
Lack of diversity will be definitely be a problem =D
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
I recall it has somewhat sketchy privacy record (made the news this year with canvas fingerprinting). This website uses AddThis so I thought I’d ask.