justindomke

• justindomke 15 Oct 2021 21:55 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Unnamed’s comment on: Is an­chor­ing a re­li­able cog­ni­tive bias?

  I made the change to “irrelevant anchors”, thanks.

  though instead of spinning a viscerally random wheel they just handed each student a piece of paper that included the sentences “We chose (by computer) a random number between 0 and 100. The number selected and assigned to you is X = ___”

  What’s funny is that these kinds of small changes (a piece of paper vs. spinning a wheel) might be responsible for if the effects appear or not, at least if you take the published research at face value.

Is an­chor­ing a re­li­able cog­ni­tive bias?