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Is there an on-line 'rationality test' anywhere, and if not, would it be worth making one?
The idea would be to have some type of on-line questionnaire, testing for various types of biases, etc. Initially I thought of it as a way of getting data on the rationality of different demographics, but it could also be a fantastic promotional tool for LessWrong (taking a page out of the Scientology playbook tee-hee). People love tests, just look at the cottage industry around IQ-testing. This could help raise the sanity waterline, if only by making people aware of their blind spots.
There are of course the typical problems with 'putting a number on a person's rationality' and perhaps it would need some focused expertise to pull off plausibly, but I do think it's a useful thing to have around, even just to iterate on.
The test's questions may need to be considerably dynamic to avert the possibility that people condition to specific problems without shedding the entire infected heuristic. Someone who had read Less Wrong a few times, but didn't make the knowledge truly a part of them, might return false negative for certain biases while retaining those biases in real-life situations. Don't want to make the test about guessing the teacher's password.