Robin_Hanson2 comments on Correspondence Bias - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 June 2007 12:58AM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 25 June 2007 04:35:32PM 13 points [-]

The less you know less about someone's personality, the more you should infer about their personality from their behavior. So it is reasonable to infer more from behavior about others than yourself. The problem instead seems to be overconfidence - we infer far more than is reasonable given only a small behavior sample.