I realized I was a bad test subject when they had me play the Ultimatum Game and I thought, “Naively I’d want to offer $1 out of $10, but I read about a study that says most people won’t accept less than $3. OK, I’ll offer $3.”
Psych students and habitual test subjects (I lived on psych studies for about a year) are even worse than Westerners in general.
Psychology and economy have this unfortunate effect that publishing how people react sometimes changes how people react, so the successful theories can be automatically killed by their own success.
I realized I was a bad test subject when they had me play the Ultimatum Game and I thought, “Naively I’d want to offer $1 out of $10, but I read about a study that says most people won’t accept less than $3. OK, I’ll offer $3.”
Psych students and habitual test subjects (I lived on psych studies for about a year) are even worse than Westerners in general.
Psychology and economy have this unfortunate effect that publishing how people react sometimes changes how people react, so the successful theories can be automatically killed by their own success.
Ah, the joys of anti-inductive fields.
AKA the reverse Tinkerbell effect.