gwern comments on Does Hyperbolic Discounting Really Exist? - Less Wrong

19 Post author: gwern 03 December 2011 03:07AM

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Comment author: Yvain 03 December 2011 01:58:48PM 6 points [-]

Your summary is that there might be a difference between students and adults here, but isn't the last paragraph of the quoted text saying that they considered this hypothesis, but that students were also non-hyperbolic when they tested them under the same protocol?

Comment author: gwern 04 December 2011 09:12:19AM *  1 point [-]

The students were more hyperbolic, but not much. That they advertise it that way just shows how much they wanted to find hyperbolic discounting somewhere, and makes their failure to that much more credible (unless it's all an elaborate con!).