wedrifid comments on High Status and Stupidity: Why? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 13 January 2010 10:57:34PM 6 points [-]

I observe that my performance in chess and go over the course of a game more than regresses to the mean. The farther ahead I get the worse I play.

Comment author: wedrifid 13 January 2010 11:43:28PM 1 point [-]

I observe that my performance in chess and go over the course of a game more than regresses to the mean. The farther ahead I get the worse I play.

I notice a similar (not to the mean) regression when I am playing chess and, well, just about everything. I excel under pressure.

It strikes me that these observations are relevant to the opening post but not to the immediate ancestors, at least by content.