The study is about people confused about something not worthy of further study. At first glance it might look like a study of the thing not worthy of further study itself.
Ah. I see. I don’t think that was what was going on here. Wedrifid seemed to find it frivolous because he considered it trivially obvious that the two types of mistakes would occur together. I don’t think for example wedrified necessarily consider it frivolous if someone did study which looked for a correlation between not understanding/accepting .999...=1 and say performance at dual-n back or some other task that is not as obviously related to mathematical ability.
Also because, we’ll it’d be fun to do the study but I’m not quite sure how it got to the top of someone’s research priorities! On the other hand I suppose it would be a cheap study to do and something to keep the post-grads amused.
Can you expand on that claim? I’m not sure I understand your point.
The study is about people confused about something not worthy of further study. At first glance it might look like a study of the thing not worthy of further study itself.
Ah. I see. I don’t think that was what was going on here. Wedrifid seemed to find it frivolous because he considered it trivially obvious that the two types of mistakes would occur together. I don’t think for example wedrified necessarily consider it frivolous if someone did study which looked for a correlation between not understanding/accepting .999...=1 and say performance at dual-n back or some other task that is not as obviously related to mathematical ability.
Also because, we’ll it’d be fun to do the study but I’m not quite sure how it got to the top of someone’s research priorities! On the other hand I suppose it would be a cheap study to do and something to keep the post-grads amused.