I think I forgot to write about a whole section with more counter-intuitive trick questions. The point basically was that a problem presenting an obvious pattern leads the lazy brain into extending the pattern without actually checking the details. '5 machines make 5 widgets in 5 minutes, how long will 100 machines take to make 100 widgets?' Careless pattern says 100 minutes, answer is 5. I thought these chapters were poorly organized and disaggregated.
This is why my widget factor is running so far ahead of production plans.
...subjects may walk more slowly than normal if primed with words related to aging, for instance.
Spending so much time around hospitals and elderly people has really made me notice this effect. I even see my hand shaking more if I try to hold it steady.
Good job finding the video. That was creepier than I expected, somehow.
4: I thought it was totally charming, something Pixar would be proud of. It wasn't hard to find, actually, I think it was the first hit.
I mean, Looney Toons charming, with violence and brutality abounding.
It just hadn't occurred to me that of course the video was out there, because despite working for the beast, it's somehow not part of my mental habits. My S1 doesn't remember that Youtube exists, I suppose.
On the subject of cognitive strain, I remember when I first started writing up my work in LaTeX. I found myself thinking the proof looked a lot more convincing. It took more effort than it should have to remember it was still stuff I had written and surely had errors.
Is Latex prettier on the screen? I've seen arguments against MS Word to the effect that it conflates formatting with content creation and thus distracts the author from content.
I was editing in emacs at the time. So on the screen it looked like raw ugly code. It was after generating a pdf that the cognitive illusion kicked in. It probably helped that now my writing was formatting the same way as about 90% of Springer math texts at the time.
I'm in two minds. Shorter things like emails I usually compose in N++, and it feels easier to focus than when writing in the email client, or in a comment box. But for longer stuff like the OP I feel the ugliness of N++ as friction, so I use Word.
It's worth pointing out here that the "Florida" priming thing is the paradigm case for the replication crisis. Not only did Bargh's paper prove impossible to replicate, Bargh got seriously pissy about it. Also, another social priming researcher, Diederik Stapel, was caught making up experimental data as a result and had to retract over 50 journal articles.
Interestingly, the people who tried to replicate the Bargh et al paper discovered that the effect only existed when the experimenters knew which participants had been primed. Also, there was a big difference if they measured the speed they walked at or estimated it.
http://andrewgelman.com/2016/02/12/priming-effects-replicate-just-fine-thanks/
https://medium.com/@JohnBorghi/scenes-from-the-replication-crisis-81651bd4415e#.1vk9xfb2n
I always thought the "Replication Crisis" had more to do with tribbles.
I did not read this, but it might be interesting and relevant.
I just read the same excerpt Moby found, and it is interesting in light of this book - I need to go re-read the introduction where he described the collaboration.
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis might be interesting supplemental reading for this group.