I see people mentioning whenever the answer is right or not, but that's actually irrelevant. The heuristic only measures how surprising the popular answer is to the population.
It's not presented as irrelevant in the article. The article presents it as "a wisdom of the crowd technique", and ends with "there can be high confidence that the correct answer is No".
So it is assumed that people using this technique could be inferring the correct answer by finding the surprisingly popular answer. Not just a observation about what the population thinks.
jobigoud|6 years ago
So it is assumed that people using this technique could be inferring the correct answer by finding the surprisingly popular answer. Not just a observation about what the population thinks.