Given that (A+B)/2 is the decision point, maybe tgb shouldn’t be worried about anchoring—it’s just the nature of the beast. An anchoring effect should be expected.
Indeed. The way the question is asked appear to suggest that the correct answer is either somewhere near A or somewhere near B, so if A and B were 1828 and 2012, or 1917 and 1918, the anchoring effects would be different.
Given that (A+B)/2 is the decision point, maybe tgb shouldn’t be worried about anchoring—it’s just the nature of the beast. An anchoring effect should be expected.
Indeed. The way the question is asked appear to suggest that the correct answer is either somewhere near A or somewhere near B, so if A and B were 1828 and 2012, or 1917 and 1918, the anchoring effects would be different.
Thanks for pointing this out—this was not the intended reading.