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Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

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Re: Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

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Post by delichon »

Look, this is good entertainment, you should own up to that and enough with the noble purpose stuff:

> I built JuryNow because I wanted to create a truly objective place to get outside opinions that were not from my peer group, but from 12 people in 12 different countries, different ages, professions, cultures, a truly diverse global objective jury with no algorithms.

You don't collect demographics, and couldn't verify them anyway, so this game doesn't give insight into those dynamics. And the result is not more objective than a social media consensus.

That doesn't mean it isn't fun and even maybe useful in collecting one's thoughts, so go with that.

Re: Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

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Post by Nevermark »

p_ing wrote: post #7

For Jury, I would give a "skip question" option. I found one relating to Christianity that I had _no_ idea what the "correct" answer would be based on the two options. I thought clicking "Ask a new question" then going right back into Jury Duty would give me a new question, but I landed on the same one. I think the asker providing the two valid responses is flawed. It doesn't allow the "jury" to draw their own conclu…

Skipping unanswerable questions would be good for everyone. Any answer would be misleading.

But answer choices should not be qualified by anything, because that systematically creates unanswerable regions.

There should be Context and Question, narrowed down any way the questioner wants. Then just “Yes” or “No” without qualification.

That is what a jury does.

Or: allow answer qualifications, followed by an automatic “None of the above”.

Anyone getting a lot of the latter is getting accurate feedback that the choices they posted were too narrow.

Without either fix, the basic logic of the utility will often be broken. Maybe both? Allow questions to be yes/no, or n choices with NOTA.

Re: Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

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Post by satisfice »

The premise of this app is undermined by the oversimplified implementation.

Truly diverse panel? You have no idea what the diversity is. Far removed from your peer group? You have no idea. "Just a verdict"? Jury duty is not a duty to pronounce judgement. It's a duty deliberate on evidence. There's no evidence, here, and no deliberation.

This is no celebration of collective human intelligence. This is silly and cynical.

Re: Show HN: JuryNow – Get an anonymous instant verdict from 12 real people

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Post by xivzgrev »

Fun idea, grabbed my attention right away.

As a follow up, I'd guide people on asking questions. More context = better answers.

For example, I joined a jury. The question was "Should I go to Belarus?" That's so vague, it doesn't even feel helpful for me to answer. I would much rather the question have said something like "I've always wanted to go to Belarus, but my rent is also due in a week. I only have enough money for one. Where should I spend my money?"

That at least gives me something to work with and weigh in on.

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