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65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 11 April 2013 06:17:52AM *  6 points [-]

I'm going to have to spend some time determining how much I should change my mind with this new evidence, but my gut feeling is that the objectively worst possible data (my own experience with performing well when expected to perform well, and performing poorly when expected to perform poorly), will continue to dominate my personal opinion on the matter.

Upvoted for candor.