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JauntyHatAngle on Oct 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious

>Perhaps for certain personality types, misplaced conviction will put you on a higher velocity trajectory toward truth than honest confusion.

The key part of this sentence that makes it true, is the "for certain personality types".

I would wager the majority of personality types however, it would put you on a higher velocity trajectory to willful ignorance.

Tomminn on Oct 8, 2020 [–]

For sure. It's a small fraction of the population whose first instinct to prove themselves right is to do which also has the possibility of also proving themselves wrong.

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