JulianMorrison comments on Multiple Choice - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Alicorn 17 May 2010 10:26PM

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 18 May 2010 08:21:10PM *  2 points [-]

Speech is hella hard to be rational about because the penalty for inaction when speaking in groups is high - if you value having a chance to speak, and if your group isn't using a formal scheduling algorithm to give all would-be speakers their time slice. You can end up entirely excluded from the conversation just for hesitating. Therefore in most circumstances people speak "from cache", so it seems to me.

Comment author: khafra 16 June 2010 05:34:43PM *  4 points [-]

Ever hung out with a group of friends who used a talking stick or similar token? If so, was the average quality of conversation much higher than with other groups of similar size and median IQ?