Clearly, lesswrongers are not suitable for a very wide range of psychological experiments.
Most people never realize that they actually “take” the money from the researchers, who would probably put it to better use than Mr. Anonymous. So usually that set-up is no problem at all, and if someone as clever as you “gets it” and consequently ruins the experiment, that person is still just a tiny data-blip skewing the results by just an infinitesimal amount, given a proper sample-size.
Clearly, lesswrongers are not suitable for a very wide range of psychological experiments.
Most people never realize that they actually “take” the money from the researchers, who would probably put it to better use than Mr. Anonymous. So usually that set-up is no problem at all, and if someone as clever as you “gets it” and consequently ruins the experiment, that person is still just a tiny data-blip skewing the results by just an infinitesimal amount, given a proper sample-size.