My interpretation: there’s no such thing as negative value of information. If the mean of the crowdworkers’ estimates were reliably in the wrong direction (compared with Elizabeth’s prior) then that would allow you to update Elizabeth’s prior to make it more accurate.
My interpretation: there’s no such thing as negative value of information. If the mean of the crowdworkers’ estimates were reliably in the wrong direction (compared with Elizabeth’s prior) then that would allow you to update Elizabeth’s prior to make it more accurate.