orangecat comments on Misleading the witness - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: orangecat 13 August 2009 01:20:28AM 1 point [-]

I tried it on two women at work and they both went for the million, one with no hesitation and the other after maybe 10 seconds. Although they both have some background in finance and are probably 1 to 2 standard deviations above average IQ.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 August 2009 03:09:02PM 2 points [-]

That's not very surprising. You could see if they passed all three questions on the reflection test.

Comment author: Bo102010 13 August 2009 02:25:52AM 2 points [-]

My fiance (who has a more advanced degree than I) thought I was trying to trick her and made me restate the problem several times.