torekp comments on [POLL] Wisdom of the Crowd experiment - Less Wrong
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Given that (A+B)/2 is the decision point, maybe tgb shouldn't be worried about anchoring - it's just the nature of the beast. An anchoring effect should be expected.
Indeed. The way the question is asked appear to suggest that the correct answer is either somewhere near A or somewhere near B, so if A and B were 1828 and 2012, or 1917 and 1918, the anchoring effects would be different.
Thanks for pointing this out - this was not the intended reading.