Sarunas comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sarunas 23 June 2015 02:31:09PM *  8 points [-]

A paper "Philosophers’ Biased Judgments Persist Despite Training, Expertise and Reflection" (Eric Schwitzgebel and Fiery Cushman) is available here: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/Stability-150423.pdf

Comment author: Mac 23 June 2015 03:47:07PM 1 point [-]

Very interesting, thanks for finding it.

The methods and statistics look good (feel free to correct me). However, I wish the authors would have controlled for gender. I don’t think it would significantly change the results, but behavioral finance research indicates that men are more susceptible to certain behavioral biases than women:

https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/odean/papers/gender/BoysWillBeBoys.pdf

Admittedly, “Boys Will Be Boys” addresses overconfidence bias rather than framing and order biases.