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FAWS comments on An Anchoring Experiment - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: prase 01 April 2011 02:19PM

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Comment author: FAWS 01 April 2011 07:18:30PM 0 points [-]

I think you should have posted just the links to the questions and the instructions on which link to follow without explaining what the experiment is about.

Comment author: prase 04 April 2011 10:30:19AM 0 points [-]

That would be certainly a reasonable way to do it, however I suppose that the LW audience is well informed about the biases and able to guess what it is all about even without being explicitly told. Meanwhile I wanted to provide some explanation why I am doing this, and to publish the tested hypothesis in advance (as a measure of honesty).

The effect seems robust enough to survive when people know that they are being tested for it.