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shminux comments on [LINK] The power of fiction for moral instruction - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 25 March 2013 05:33:05AM 2 points [-]

I wonder what the average relaxation rate is and if there is any residual.

Comment author: gwern 25 March 2013 02:25:02PM 1 point [-]

The effect sizes (eyeballing the graphs) are pretty small. I think the take-away here is more about 'a lifetime of media consumption' rather than any one piece of media.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 25 March 2013 01:56:43PM *  1 point [-]

From my totally scientifically collected and sample-bias-free personal experience, the short-term effect has a half-life of 3 days at most, with the effects generally being undetectable after a week.

A well-designed study of this would be interesting.