billswift comments on Misleading the witness - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Bo102010 09 August 2009 08:13PM

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Comment author: billswift 10 August 2009 01:04:00PM 7 points [-]

These sorts of brain-teasers are of limited help in developing your critical thinking skills for dealing with real world problems. Here the problem is presented to you and you just have to figure out what went wrong with a train of thought. In the real world, the BIG problem is noticing that there is a difficulty in the first place.

Comment author: Bo102010 10 August 2009 01:48:07PM 6 points [-]

I think what's striking about this example is that it's not just a misstep in a train of thought; it's the riddler flat out lying to the riddled, forcing them into a certain pattern of thought.