MrHen comments on Where's Your Sense of Mystery? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 26 April 2009 12:45AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 April 2009 04:37:06PM 0 points [-]

You may find some statistical effect, but why not give them all the same test, and rank them on their actual knowledge of biology and medicine?

Comment author: MrHen 27 April 2009 06:26:52PM 0 points [-]

I think the concept of feeling better or worse than the majority is important to the experiment. Being told that you suck is more convincing after a hard test regardless of how much you actually know.