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Manfred comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic. - Less Wrong Discussion

39 Post author: Will_Newsome 21 August 2011 12:35PM

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Comment author: Manfred 25 August 2011 07:43:56AM 2 points [-]

Well, that's still the "confronting" test. Given that people answered "because of the other evidence" in various places, either you're wrong about people deciding irrationally, or people are rationalizing a lot (which would make it a non-discriminating test). What sort of test would discriminate between a rational-ish person and someone who originally chose because of some bias ("bias X") and then rationalized, without requiring examination of the annotated bibliography of all the evidence someone ever considered ever?

Comment author: roland 25 August 2011 07:34:26PM -1 points [-]

I don't know, do you have any suggestion?