I only tried the triplet pitch once, and they got the answer, but didn’t feel like “oh, I had a bias,” they just felt like it was a trick question. Then I generalized from one example and stopped using it.
I put a poll on my blog isomorphic to the Allais Paradox, and I ought to have seen it ahead of time, but it’s alarming the extent to which some people will go to rationalise their decisions. With one respondent I whittled the scenario down to the point where he obstinately claimed his choice between A or B would change given identical odds but a different method of randomisation.
This was one of a few efforts that basically put me off trying to recruit for rationality.
I put a poll on my blog isomorphic to the Allais Paradox, and I ought to have seen it ahead of time, but it’s alarming the extent to which some people will go to rationalise their decisions. With one respondent I whittled the scenario down to the point where he obstinately claimed his choice between A or B would change given identical odds but a different method of randomisation.
This was one of a few efforts that basically put me off trying to recruit for rationality.