pnrjulius comments on The Halo Effect - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 November 2007 12:58AM

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Comment author: jedermann 03 December 2008 10:57:32PM 2 points [-]

"You should be suspicious if the people you know seem to separate too cleanly into devils and angels."

The halo effect perhaps provides a better explanation for the apparent insistence on Hitler's weird sex life:

(from post on NYT ideas blog)

Comment author: pnrjulius 21 April 2012 02:41:10PM 1 point [-]

Also the belief that he has only one testicle, which appears to be completely made up by British sailors.