Manfred comments on Thinking and Deciding: a chapter by chapter review - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Vaniver 09 May 2012 11:52PM

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Comment author: Manfred 11 May 2012 03:11:04PM *  1 point [-]

People fail to distinguish between casual influence- "my voting makes people like me more likely to vote"- from diagnostic influence- "people like me voting makes me more likely to vote"- but one of the major reasons people give for voting is that it has a causal influence, rather than a merely diagnostic one.

Good! Score 1 for people. Because, after all, I am "people like me."