PuyaSharif comments on Rational to distrust your own rationality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PuyaSharif 28 October 2011 01:57:18AM 6 points [-]

One way of testing: Have two questions just like in Allais experiment. Make the experiment in five different versions where choice 1B has increasing complexity but same expected utility. See if 1B-aversion correlates with increasing complexity.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 October 2011 02:06:58AM 0 points [-]

Ooh. I like that. That's a much more direct test than my suggestion.