David_Gerard comments on Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 23 December 2011 08:40:34AM 5 points [-]

It's not clear that the effect is really there, and certainly isn't as strong as originally thought:

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11438/the-decline-effect-haunts-science/

U.Cal-Santa Barbara psychology professor Jonathan Schooler has a problem. The certitude of a phenomenon that made him a rock star in academic circles — he called it “verbal overshadowing,” and he published the results 20 years ago — is beginning to break down. And its fragility is calling the entire scientific method into question.

Comment author: David_Gerard 23 December 2011 10:00:17AM 0 points [-]

This is very interesting, as the concept of verbal overshadowing seems to me to make a lot of sense of a lot of things. Finding it's actually wrong would be useful too. Thank you.

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