Psy-Kosh comments on Generalizing From One Example - Less Wrong

259 Post author: Yvain 28 April 2009 10:00PM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 29 April 2009 07:20:05PM 3 points [-]

Interesting.

How did the surveys work, though? ie, just wondering what sorts of questions were asked that actually helped Galton figure out to what extent they had visual imagination. (as opposed to whether they just thought they did)

Comment author: Tem42 15 June 2015 03:54:25PM 0 points [-]

The study already given above includes some detail: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/238511/papers/2006-brewer.pdf