I’ve tried to combat this one by imagining the item at a variety of different price points, with the same saving. I don’t know how you’d measure how much success you were having, though, because obviously no-one who understood this bias would exhibit it in a formal test setting, only in more informal settings where it’s harder to compare. You need some way of mixing it up so you can’t just do the sum, but the bias emerges from the noise all the same.
What I’m hoping for is something akin to the racism tests which don’t show you two candidates identical except for race and ask you to choose between them, but which mix up races and CVs and find the racism in the noise with statistical techniques.
I’ve tried to combat this one by imagining the item at a variety of different price points, with the same saving. I don’t know how you’d measure how much success you were having, though, because obviously no-one who understood this bias would exhibit it in a formal test setting, only in more informal settings where it’s harder to compare. You need some way of mixing it up so you can’t just do the sum, but the bias emerges from the noise all the same.
If you can’t “just do the sum” then there is no apparent bias—you are just making an arbitrary choice if you can’t compare them rationally.
What I’m hoping for is something akin to the racism tests which don’t show you two candidates identical except for race and ask you to choose between them, but which mix up races and CVs and find the racism in the noise with statistical techniques.