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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 09 October 2007 02:59:30PM 1 point [-]

Richard, honest belief is the belief they would have if they were being honest. Averaging over all possible groups large and small, the large group average belief must tend to be more accurate. But if we condition on a small group having some feature X, then of course it becomes an open question, depending on X.