drnickbone comments on Interlude for Behavioral Economics - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Yvain 06 July 2012 08:12PM

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Comment author: drnickbone 07 July 2012 10:01:00PM *  4 points [-]

This is a good catch, and criticism of the "deliberately spoil the experiment" design.

A better design would be to put the contestants in adjacent rooms, but to allow the second contestant to "accidentally" overhear the first (e.g. speaking loudly, through thin walls). Then the experimenter enters the second contestant's room and asks them whether they want to co-operate or defect.