From: Michael Vassar (michaelvassar@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 12:02:56 MDT
I don't want to go "is too! is not!" but really what do You call it when
someone refuses to believe the explanation of the Monty Hall problem?
>From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
>Reply-To: sl4@sl4.org
>To: sl4@sl4.org
>Subject: Re: [agi] Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics
>and biases
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:33:29 -0700
>
>That's not the same as refusing to believe that the *math* in
>Bayes Theorem is correct.
>
>-Robin
>
>On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Michael Vassar wrote:
> > You haven't Ben? How many scientists have you shown the Monty Hall
>problem
> > only to have them refuse to believe the correct answer even after you
>have
> > explained it to them? None? Really? You should try it? How many
> > scientists can even do a Wason selection task?
> >
> > >I have never met a scientist who did not accept Bayes Theorem as a
> > >piece of mathematics.
> >
> >
>
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