tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8969322255225997277..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Who Is Most Easily Misled?Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-77403643657469269492018-11-09T17:59:34.439-05:002018-11-09T17:59:34.439-05:00This one is hard. Outside of our domains of exper...This one is hard. Outside of our domains of expertise, we're probably all susceptible to accepting information that's a little off the beam. If the experimenter is persistent enough, we can wind up believing stuff that's way off.<br />The less you know, and the narrower your interests, the easier.<br /><br />Of course when someone starts off with a foundation of "all the crap I learned in high school" and isn't curious enough to go look things up for himself, it is trivial to mislead him further.<br /><br />The test environment would have to be somewhat tailored to the individual, which makes controls kind of hard. And if your test demands a little persistence, you run the risk of exciting the subject's curiosity, which would quickly blow your credibility.<br /><br />I don't see a simple way of using the history of fads as a guide, because lots of people go along with a fad to go along with their friends/tribe. If there's some act that would indicate a depth of commitment to the fad you could use that as a proxy (e.g. investing $$ in tulips), but it would have to be private in order not to be a matter of social pressure, and if it is too private you don't learn about it.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-45765993158841339962018-11-08T19:37:54.813-05:002018-11-08T19:37:54.813-05:00Jordan Peterson observes that women generally are ...Jordan Peterson observes that women generally are more agreeable. I'm an outlier, not at all agreeable, more of a skeptic and a contrarian. It's easier to bamboozle me by appealing to my pride or antipathy than to my need to go along.<br /><br />I suppose you could set up experiments in which groups tried to lean on an individual to go along with an incorrect judgment about something verifiable, using various tactics.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.com