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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Dec. 15 - Dec. 21, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 16 December 2014 04:23:56PM *  3 points [-]

why are they getting anyone at all?

Because people are different and in a sufficiently large population you can find outliers (don't forget people are not rational).