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39 Post author: RobinHanson 01 March 2009 01:21PM

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Comment author: patrissimo 01 March 2009 09:17:37PM 14 points [-]

Play poker for significant amounts of money. While it only tests limited and specific areas of rationality, and of course requires some significant domain-specific knowledge, poker is an excellent rationality test. The main difficulty of playing the game well, once one understands the basic strategy, is in how amazingly well it evokes and then punishes our irrational natures. Difficulties updating (believing the improbable when new information comes in), loss aversion, takeover by the limbic system (anger / jealousy / revenge / etc), lots of aspects that it tests.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 March 2009 09:59:28PM *  6 points [-]

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Comment author: Johnicholas 03 March 2009 10:25:32AM 2 points [-]

To some extent, all tests have the problem of transfer.