JoshuaZ comments on Expecting Short Inferential Distances - Less Wrong

107 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2007 11:42PM

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Comment author: AlanCrowe 05 October 2011 02:12:03PM 3 points [-]

I've just learned that there is interesting research on this topic. Sorry I don't have better links.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 05 October 2011 02:52:39PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. Although that strongly suggests that children in fact are more gullible are specifically religious stories. I'd have to wonder if they are actually more gullible than those, have been primed to think that religious stories are allowed to have more fantastic elements and still be true, or have found out that expressing skepticism of such stories is more likely to result in negative consequences. The last seems unlikely to me.