maia comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: maia 18 October 2012 01:27:08AM 1 point [-]

For something very brief, anchoring bias is easy to demonstrate and fairly dramatic. I tried this on a friend a couple weeks ago, anchoring her on 1 million people as the population of Ghana; she guessed 900,000. Turned out to be 25 million.