Xodarap comments on Political Skills which Increase Income - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Xodarap 02 March 2014 05:56PM

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Comment author: Xodarap 03 March 2014 01:07:50AM 3 points [-]

This is a good point.

If you look at tables 8 and 9 from Gordon you can see that once you control for "transparency" (i.e. how obvious the bullshit is) the setting is no longer a significant predictor. So I'm not sure I agree that it's the "iterated" part of real-world interactions which cause this result (it seems likely that you can more easily tell if someone's changing their behavior to follow an experiment if they are a close coworker than a random student, for example), but I think your point about transparency being important is relevant.