if every article about a topic started with a short optional test on the topic… maybe it would make readers less overconfident.
It seems like adding a quiz feature that authors can put at the beginning and/or end of a post would boost interactivity by making it more of a game and a challenge (and a very engaging challenge given the usual LW posts). It would probably be a good bet on encouraging more people to read and properly ingest at least one LW article each day. There’s no need for any input at all, let alone data collection; just establish a norm where people put Q&A at the beginning/end and the answers are behind some sort of spoiler barrier.
I want to note that this kind of thing can go horribly wrong in a lot of very different ways, but right now I’m drawing a blank for that.
It seems like adding a quiz feature that authors can put at the beginning and/or end of a post would boost interactivity by making it more of a game and a challenge (and a very engaging challenge given the usual LW posts). It would probably be a good bet on encouraging more people to read and properly ingest at least one LW article each day. There’s no need for any input at all, let alone data collection; just establish a norm where people put Q&A at the beginning/end and the answers are behind some sort of spoiler barrier.
I want to note that this kind of thing can go horribly wrong in a lot of very different ways, but right now I’m drawing a blank for that.