No one gets it 99% right. (Modulo my expectation that we are speaking only of questions of a minimal difficulty; say, at least as difficult as the simplest questions that the person has never considered before.)
When I was a cryptographer, an information source with a .000001% bulge (information content above randomness) would break a code wide open for me. Lack of bias was much more important than % right.
You’re onto me. Yes, that’s with a large corpus. The kind you get when people encrypt non-textual information. So, I lied a little. You need a bigger bulge with shorter messages.
No one gets it 99% right. (Modulo my expectation that we are speaking only of questions of a minimal difficulty; say, at least as difficult as the simplest questions that the person has never considered before.)
When I was a cryptographer, an information source with a .000001% bulge (information content above randomness) would break a code wide open for me. Lack of bias was much more important than % right.
From a curious non-cryptographer: what size of corpus are you talking about here?
You’re onto me. Yes, that’s with a large corpus. The kind you get when people encrypt non-textual information. So, I lied a little. You need a bigger bulge with shorter messages.
I didn’t mean to call you out—I was just curious. A curve of data set size versus required bulge would be interesting.
In that case, a second information source of that quality wouldn’t have been that much use to you.
The first person who gets it 95% right would be very valuable. But there are diminishing returns.