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Konkvistador comments on Religious dogma as group identity - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: uzalud 28 December 2011 10:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 December 2011 08:40:46PM *  1 point [-]

There are slightly unethical ways to get some weak evidence on this.

Get two groups, assign one with a irrelevant but silly and the other with a irrelevant but not silly belief as their marker. Then have the two groups compete to try and recruit a limited pool of preselected people to their cause. Then set up a game where numbers help, but defection is possible and hurts the team quite a bit, and let people know this.

Its slightly unethical because it has some potential to go nasty as some previous experiments on blue vs. green have.