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roystgnr comments on Cognitive Style Tends To Predict Religious Conviction (psychcentral.com) - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Incorrect 23 September 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: roystgnr 24 September 2011 06:20:35PM 9 points [-]

There's some serious spin in this paper. They use the words "intuitive" vs "reflective" to describe answers dozens of times, whereas they use "correct" vs "incorrect" less than a dozen... but reading the actual objective description of the study, it's clear that a subject who intuitively gets the correct answer gets called "reflective" in the results, whereas a subject who reflects on the problem for a while but still gets the trick incorrect answer gets called "intuitive" in the results.

I don't think the distinction between easily tricked and not easily tricked can be best described as if they were two equally valid options of "cognitive style".