wedrifid comments on Shut Up And Guess - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Yvain 21 July 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 July 2009 11:56:19AM 7 points [-]

The students infer a social rule penalising guessing. In almost all cases exploiting a technicality that works around a social rule is penalised. Nobody likes munchkins.

I would expect to observe a tendency for people rationalise reasons to not guess even if loss aversion was contolled for.