Yeah, and this may get at another reason why the proposal doesn’t seem right to me. There’s no doubt that most people would be better calibrated if they adopted it, but 52% and 48% are the same for the average person, so it’s completely impractical.
If anything, the proposal should be ‘if you don’t think you’re particularly smart, your position on almost every controversial topic should be “I have no idea”’. Which still might not be good advice because there is disproportionate overlap between the set of people likely to take the advice and the set of people for whom it doesn’t apply.
Yeah, and this may get at another reason why the proposal doesn’t seem right to me. There’s no doubt that most people would be better calibrated if they adopted it, but 52% and 48% are the same for the average person, so it’s completely impractical.
If anything, the proposal should be ‘if you don’t think you’re particularly smart, your position on almost every controversial topic should be “I have no idea”’. Which still might not be good advice because there is disproportionate overlap between the set of people likely to take the advice and the set of people for whom it doesn’t apply.