Alexandros comments on What Intelligence Tests Miss: The psychology of rational thought - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alexandros 12 July 2010 11:46:47AM 2 points [-]

Thank you for a very interesting sequence. I've been trying to find a next step for someone interested in rationality and currently going through the HP fanfic that Eliezer is writing, and this book just might be it.

I am also developing a slight interest in measuring rationality. Does the book share any insights on that?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 12 July 2010 09:19:28PM 1 point [-]

I am also developing a slight interest in measuring rationality. Does the book share any insights on that?

Mostly it just mentions various experimental setups where people often end up giving inconsistent or irrational answers, such as the two ways of framing taxation thing. You could consider those tests of rationality. The type of personality tests that measure your thinking dispositions also seem to give results that are correlated with rationality.