Oscar_Cunningham comments on Discussion of LW going on in felicifia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 16 January 2013 08:44:04PM 1 point [-]

Thinking of yourself as not part of the group will help though.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2013 08:46:16PM 4 points [-]

Will it? How do you know? What do you mean by "help"? Why do you believe this? How confident are you?

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 16 January 2013 09:17:37PM 2 points [-]

Good questions, I'm afraid that that's just my intuition with no experiments backing it up. Do you know of any relevant data? I can't think of a way to structure a good experiment; how would we measure group affiliation except by getting people to report it?