ciphergoth comments on Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge - Less Wrong

42 Post author: JesseGalef 18 October 2011 05:39PM

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Comment author: byrnema 18 October 2011 10:39:56PM 4 points [-]

They weren't playing the game right. The way to correctly play the game, especially among siblings, is for a person to always pick the same song. For example, if I'm tapping, I'm tapping 'Jingle Bells'. And we have a near 100% success rate. (It is not quite 100% due to the initial learning curve, but the success rate then steadily improves over time.)

That said... I'm tapping a tune as I type on this keyboard. Can you guess it??

Comment author: ciphergoth 20 October 2011 02:32:29PM 1 point [-]

By my experience, at least in the UK there is one tune that everyone I've tried so far has recognised from my tapping it out :-)