Metaculus / Metaculus/metaculus
Don't include bots in average updates count
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Description
The following was caused by a single bot making ~2k forecasts where there were only 10 forecasters.
Let's not include bot forecasts in the divisor unless there are no non-bot forecasts.
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Research direction
No file or test is named; start by searching for the average updates count and the forecast aggregation that computes its divisor. Reproduce the case with bot and non-bot forecasts, then verify that bots are excluded when non-bot forecasts exist and included only when they are the sole forecasts.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 62/100