arundelo comments on Poll results: LW probably doesn't cause akrasia - LessWrong

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Comment author: arundelo 17 November 2011 02:45:57PM 0 points [-]

Everyone is either married or unmarried. (At least for the purposes of a logic puzzle like this.)

Comment author: Logos01 17 November 2011 07:33:35PM 1 point [-]

Not so fast. If your definitions of "married" v. "unmarried" are non-binary -- that is, if you consider "widowed" or "divorced" or "handfasted" to be categories of "other", then you're going to "get the puzzle wrong".

If, on the other hand, it were a more definitionally binary question -- "wearing a wedding ring" for example -- that would be another story. Though I suspect it would be 'gotten wrong' roughly as frequently, since such views of "married"/"unmarried" are likely unconventional.