Jeremy Stangroom

@PhilosophyExp @owenphelps That's not being 'misled', that's linguistic interpretation. And 65% of English speakers read it that way.

@LyonJE @PhilosophyExp Indeed! That's been my problem with this standard test for some time. It *thinks* it's a logic problem, but it's not.

@owenphelps @LyonJE The analysis says precisely that people get it wrong because of linguistic conventions. This isn't a suprise.

@PhilosophyExp @owenphelps In short, the premise is flawed. It's not testing logic, it's testing how people interpret non-formal ambiguity.

@LyonJE @owenphelps Oh good grief. Sorry guys, I'm done with this conversation. You think it thinks it's a test of formal logic. It doesn't.

@PhilosophyExp @owenphelps ... (e.g.) analysis opens with "Fail, made a basic logic error". Well, is it a test of logic, or not?

@LyonJE @owenphelps thing here. I've taught this stuff. Lots of people don't realize quite why they went wrong (though it's the same reason)

@PhilosophyExp @owenphelps Ah, now "most people not _realising_ why" is a much more notable point about human beings... Get a lot of that.