MixedNuts comments on Learned Helplessness - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Raw_Power 13 November 2011 04:55PM

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Comment author: MixedNuts 13 November 2011 08:23:42PM *  6 points [-]

Summary: A teacher gives each student in the classroom a list of words; they are asked to find an anagram, then raise their hand, for each word. The control group gets "tab", "lemon", and "cinerama"; the test group gets "whirl", "slapstick", and "cinerama". After failing to find anagrams for the first two words, and seeing the control group succeed easily, students in the test group can't find anagrams for the third word.

Comment author: fortyeridania 13 November 2011 11:00:59PM 2 points [-]

students in the control group can't find anagrams for the third word

Do you mean "students in the test group"? Or have I misunderstood?

Comment author: MixedNuts 13 November 2011 11:03:11PM 0 points [-]

Oops, fixed, thanks.