Psychohistorian comments on Calibration fail - Less Wrong

8 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 August 2009 05:15PM

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 09 August 2009 08:47:55PM 5 points [-]

People seem to be terrible at estimating vertical distances over human heights or a little bit larger.Which makes sense, since there's really no reason for us to have gotten good at it; I don't see how it would be adaptive.