Morendil comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 21 September 2010 08:56:44PM 2 points [-]

Sure. One common one is "jumping to solutions".

For an experimental setup, imagine a situation where you describe a situation to a group of people from random professions vs. to a programmer; I would be very surprised if it didn't turn out that programmers start saying "you should do X and Y", with non-programmers asking more questions. The more "technical" the topic the greater I'd expect the difference to be.