ScottMessick comments on Interlude for Behavioral Economics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ScottMessick 06 July 2012 08:34:16PM 6 points [-]

But this elegant simplicity was, like so many other things, ruined by the Machiguenga Indians of eastern Peru.

Wait, is this a joke, or have the Machiguenga really provided counterexamples to lots of social science hypotheses?

Comment author: KPier 07 July 2012 04:14:18AM 3 points [-]

He also says:

As in so many other areas, our most important information comes from reality television.

I'm guessing both are a joke.

Comment author: knb 08 July 2012 04:24:06AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I also took it as a joke.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2012 07:32:34AM 2 points [-]

I took the “like so many other things” to only apply to “was ruined”, not to “was ruined by the Machiguenga”...

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 07 July 2012 04:42:15AM 2 points [-]

I think he means that many elegant, simple hypothesis have obscure counterexamples, not that the Machiguenga Indians are typically one of those counterexamples.

Comment author: DaFranker 07 July 2012 05:15:15AM *  0 points [-]

Is there not already a past sequence/post dealing with the creation of such ambiguities when there are multiple plausible implicit statements inferable from an inexact syntactical construction? I thought I saw something along those lines somewhere yesterday, but I can't seem to find it by just retracing my steps.

Comment author: shokwave 07 July 2012 08:30:32AM 0 points [-]

I genuinely can't tell if this is intentional.

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