orthonormal comments on Simultaneously Right and Wrong - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 07 March 2009 10:55PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 10 August 2010 11:27:16PM 0 points [-]

First, welcome to Less Wrong! Be sure to hit the welcome thread soon.

Doesn't your hypothesis here predict compensation for overconfidence in every situation, and not just for easy tasks?

Comment author: JJ10DMAN 15 October 2010 01:31:58PM 0 points [-]

Yes it does.

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Is there some implication I'm not getting here?

Comment author: orthonormal 17 October 2010 09:52:51PM 0 points [-]

Um, I don't actually remember now– I thought that one of the results was that people compensated more for overconfidence when the tasks were not too difficult. But I don't see that, looking it over now.