MichaelBishop comments on 3 Levels of Rationality Verification - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 05:19PM

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 15 March 2009 06:29:36PM 2 points [-]

You're thinking of Asch's experiments. Apparently, they are widely misrepresented: http://webpage.pace.edu/yrafferty/Yvonne/AschConformityStudy.pdf See also: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jkg/Conformity.pdf (I don't remember where I found these... possibly through OB)

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 15 March 2009 06:52:22PM 3 points [-]

Since my comment has been downvoted to 0, I assume that the LW community likes...

Hasty generalization/Belief in the law of small numbers