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The experimenters want the test subjects to believe that the die roll is truly private and therefore that the subjects can, individually, get away with a lie. A
by aamar 15y ago
The experimenters want the test subjects to believe that the die roll is truly private and therefore that the subjects can, individually, get away with a lie. An easy way to do that is to actually make the die roll private.
Maybe you could devise equipment that would convince subjects that roll was private even though it really wasn't. Ideas on how to do that? Hidden wireless/infrared camera in the cup?
- bicknergseng 15y agoI thought a hidden camera scenario would be fairly easy. Two way mirror, hidden camera, etc. If Justin Bieber is allowed hidden cameras, surely science is, too. Also interesting: the experimenters are testing lying but refuse to lie themselves in order to properly carry out the experiment. I feel like there's some special irony in there somewhere.
- its_so_on 15y agodespite my statistical uncertainty, I think it is a lot easier to show a subject that they're not being tricked if they aren't. People are REALLY good at picking up being tricked or not from very slight nonverbal communication and environmental clues.
- bicknergseng 15y agoHmmm... maybe don't tell the administrator who runs it? I'm sure there is a way to actually observe the whole thing without giving it away. There is no cake, after all.
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- vectorpush 15y agoA die equipped with a gyroscope that records the result of each roll.