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I don't quite grasp how you can purposefully ignore the general bias on the possession of wealth currently in the common mind, much less the mind of a Berkley s

• gwern 13y ago
  > I don't quite grasp how you can purposefully ignore the general bias on the possession of wealth currently in the common mind, much less the mind of a Berkley student. I am ignoring it because if you bother to read the papers and look at their manipulations, there is no reason to expect the manipulations which increase a subject's 'wealth' or 'power' by trivial amounts to then trigger cultural preconceptions or ideologies about plutocracy and 'the rich'. To be honest, once you've read the actual papers, the main question becomes the opposite of what you and the other commenters are claiming! These manipulations are so minor and represent so little real 'wealth' or 'power' that it's not clear why I should expect these results to have any meaning in the external non-laboratory world.