SilasBarta comments on New study on choice blindness in moral positions - Less Wrong

73 Post author: nerfhammer 20 September 2012 06:14PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 21 September 2012 09:59:34PM 4 points [-]

I thought I might mention a sort-of similar thing, though done more for humor: the Howard Stern Show interviewed people in an area likely to favor a certain politician, asking them if they supported him because of position X, or position Y (both of which he actually opposed).

(If you remember this, go ahead and balk at the information I left out.)

Comment author: simplicio 21 September 2012 11:28:18PM 2 points [-]

This is indeed amusing, but the author draws a wrong/incomplete/tendentious conclusion from it. I think the proper conclusion is basically our usual "Blue vs Green" meme, plus some Hansonian cynicism about 'informed electorates.'