p4wnc6 comments on Anchoring and Adjustment - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 September 2007 09:33PM

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Comment author: Andrew2 08 September 2007 12:02:36AM 5 points [-]

When I do this demo in class (see here for details or here for the brief version), I phrase it as "the percentage of countries in the United Nations that are in Africa." This seems less ambiguous than Kahneman and Tversky's phrasing (although, I admit, I haven't done any experiment to check). It indeed works in the classroom setting, although with smaller effects than reported by Kahneman and Tversky (see page 89 of the linked article above).

Comment author: p4wnc6 26 June 2011 11:25:10PM 1 point [-]

That book is indeed a great one and I have used many ideas from it in teaching an undergraduate probability class myself. I'm a grad student in applied math, so I may not see you in many of the same conferences, etc., so LW appears to be as good a place as any to say thanks. The Bayesian Data Analysis book is also quite good.