The EA Forum Digest might be biased toward posts made on certain days. Had an LLM gather dates for the posts inside Digest #298 through #302, and compare their weekday frequencies against EA Forum posts made within the same window. Probably not enough data (n=50 for Recommended; n=86 for all Digest Posts) to be meaningful.
(Got the idea to check because I was imagining if I was responsible for writing the Digest and thought, “hmmm I feel like if I were sending out emails every Wed, I would be biased toward posts made on certain days because of the availability heuristic and/or the configuration of my weekly reading/writing schedule”)
Interesting! Kind of odd to see the peak being Wednesday (the day I write and send the digest) because posts posted on Wednesday will necessarily have the lowest karma relative to their final amount, and I start off with a list of all posts sorted by karma. Recommended matters most because the rest of the digest is for announcements etc… which are featured when relevant regardless of karma.
The EA Forum Digest might be biased toward posts made on certain days. Had an LLM gather dates for the posts inside Digest #298 through #302, and compare their weekday frequencies against EA Forum posts made within the same window. Probably not enough data (n=50 for Recommended; n=86 for all Digest Posts) to be meaningful.
(Got the idea to check because I was imagining if I was responsible for writing the Digest and thought, “hmmm I feel like if I were sending out emails every Wed, I would be biased toward posts made on certain days because of the availability heuristic and/or the configuration of my weekly reading/writing schedule”)
Interesting! Kind of odd to see the peak being Wednesday (the day I write and send the digest) because posts posted on Wednesday will necessarily have the lowest karma relative to their final amount, and I start off with a list of all posts sorted by karma. Recommended matters most because the rest of the digest is for announcements etc… which are featured when relevant regardless of karma.