Agree—interesting to see such a strong effect on people who should have been trying their hardest to ignore the anchor. (assuming some unrelated aspect of experimental design isn’t skewing the results)
Would also be interesting to have a personal quiz with many questions so that you could test your own anchoring bias. (And see if you could train yourself out of it… at least in circumstances where you know it’s an issue)
Disclaimer: didn’t take part in the experiment myself (ugh factor/fear of failing on general knowloedge quizzes)
I think people haven’t been trying their hardest (nor they were instructed to). To try hardest in such a case means to use reasoning similar to this comment, which probably only minority did.
Agree—interesting to see such a strong effect on people who should have been trying their hardest to ignore the anchor. (assuming some unrelated aspect of experimental design isn’t skewing the results)
Would also be interesting to have a personal quiz with many questions so that you could test your own anchoring bias. (And see if you could train yourself out of it… at least in circumstances where you know it’s an issue)
Disclaimer: didn’t take part in the experiment myself (ugh factor/fear of failing on general knowloedge quizzes)
I think people haven’t been trying their hardest (nor they were instructed to). To try hardest in such a case means to use reasoning similar to this comment, which probably only minority did.