Psychologists have developed a self-deception test, which includes questions like “Did you ever hate your mother,” on the assumption that most everyone did but few want to admit it. See:
Paulhus, Delroy L. “Self-deception and Impression Management in Test Responses.” In Angleitner, A. & Wiggins, J. S., Personality assessment Via Questionnaires. New York, NY: Springer, 1986, 143-165.
Perhaps questions like those might be a good part of a rationality test and practice regime .
I’m not so sure. Such “probabilistic” tests are good for aggregate testing, but not for personal testing. We want to minimise false positives and false negatives.
Psychologists have developed a self-deception test, which includes questions like “Did you ever hate your mother,” on the assumption that most everyone did but few want to admit it. See:
Paulhus, Delroy L. “Self-deception and Impression Management in Test Responses.” In Angleitner, A. & Wiggins, J. S., Personality assessment Via Questionnaires. New York, NY: Springer, 1986, 143-165.
Perhaps questions like those might be a good part of a rationality test and practice regime .
I’m not so sure. Such “probabilistic” tests are good for aggregate testing, but not for personal testing. We want to minimise false positives and false negatives.