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It reminds me of the experiment where people are shown a girl with purple hair holding a feminist sign and then asked which statement is more likely to be true;
by Buttons840 2y ago
It reminds me of the experiment where people are shown a girl with purple hair holding a feminist sign and then asked which statement is more likely to be true; either (A) the girl works at a bank or (B) the girl works at a bank and is a feminist. Most people felt that statement B was more likely to be true but that is mathematically impossible.
This seems similar: "Do you want only the government doing that bad thing?" Our knee-jerk reaction is "no".
- forgot-im-old 2y agoVeritasium viewer?
- Buttons840 2y agoSometimes, but I think I first heard about this experiment in The Drunkards Walk, a book about how randomness affects our lives.
- lesuorac 2y agoIn my experience people have a tendency to not react to _just_ the written words. If B is "and is a feminist" it wouldn't surprise me if people implicitly understand A as "and is not a feminist" despite it not being worded that way.