army1987 comments on Hardened Problems Make Brittle Models - Less Wrong

51 Post author: cousin_it 06 May 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 March 2013 01:04:20AM 0 points [-]

if you can't model simple hypothetical things correctly, how does it help to try to model complex real things correctly first?

Well, people do do better on the Wason selection task when it's presented in terms of ages and drinks than in terms of letters and numbers.