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I'm increasingly inclined to use reactions to data that Communist economies did no worse on average than Capitalist economies as a new litmus test.
People who as their first reaction start pulling excuses why this must be wrong out of their asses get big negative points on this rationality test.
I don't need to explain why this is not mainstream. It is also extremely unlikely to be significantly wrong.
The original post wasn't about using someone's judgement on an issue as a litmus test. It was about the peculiar fact that you can use someone's judgement on an issue as a test of their rationality without knowing anything about the issue, if they're expressing a non-tribal opinion.
OP said: If x is a member of X, and opinion(X) = B, and opinion(x) = not(B), this indicates x is at least an independent thinker, regardless of the truth of B.
So, if you find someone who thinks that Communist economies did no worse than capitalist ones, that person is an independent thinker. But since there are very few such people here, that can't be what you mean when you say you plan to use it as a litmus test.