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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 March 2016 05:51:45PM 0 points [-]

Do you have a background in formal debate?

If you do, do you think it was worth the time?

If you don't, do you regret not having it?

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Comment author: Elo 20 March 2016 10:54:53PM *  0 points [-]

not many yeses. makes it hard to find out what you wanted to find out.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 March 2016 11:04:23PM 0 points [-]

I was just driven by vague curiosity from a discussion elsewhere about what traits might correlate with rationality.

The lack of debate background suggests (weakly because of small sample size) that debating doesn't correlate with rationality.

Maybe I'll figure out a good way to ask about the desire to argue, which I think does correlate with at least LW rationality.

Comment author: username2 21 March 2016 11:55:52AM *  0 points [-]

Maybe most LWers went to schools where no debate programs were available?

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