Raelifin comments on Vegetarianism Ideological Turing Test Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: philh 14 October 2015 10:19:33AM 5 points [-]

Possible confounding variable: people who don't think they can tell the difference might be less likely to do the test. I remember Brienne doing something similar on facebook. I read a couple of entries, spent a while agonizing about whether I thought they were slightly more likely to be genuine or fake, got bored/frustrated and gave up.

Comment author: Raelifin 14 October 2015 07:59:33PM 1 point [-]

This is a very good point, and I ought to have mentioned it in the post. The point remains about overconfidence, however. Those who did decide to try (even given that it was hard) didn't have the mental red-flag that perhaps their best try should be saying "I don't know" with or without walking away.