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army1987 comments on Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 June 2013 08:48:20PM 1 point [-]

Maybe we can charitably extend your definition to include not taking no for an answer, since people feel social pressure to not cut off a conversation halfway through.

Note also that people vary a lot in their propensity to say no in spite of pressure to the contrary, so if you're someone who hardly ever has much trouble with that and you generalize from one example...

(I've recently seen lots of anecdotal evidence that ‘if she hasn't withdrawn from the interaction, she must be enjoying it’ isn't a viable heuristic for certain people.)