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10 Post author: AShepard 22 April 2012 03:37PM

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Comment author: gwern 23 April 2012 03:30:20AM 5 points [-]

Quoting myself on MR:

  1. Does using a foreign language reduce decision-making biases?

Not too surprising. This sounds like the usual cognitive disfluency effect forcing people to shift into type-2 thinking. If they can’t solve it quickly and have to think carefully about each piece, then they’re more likely to reflect and use abstract thinking – which will usually increase normative scores.