What’s the most important belief you hold where the only evidence for it is 1) people’s answers to survey questions and/or 2) people’s behavior in contrived laboratory experiments?
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what evidence do you have that anybody actually forms beliefs on such a basis? I think people mostly form beliefs based on magical thinking, and then decorate them with survey results or lab results. It's a kind of performance art.
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I’m asking about the beliefs - I don’t know what kind of answers I’m going to get yet, or I wouldn’t ask!
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you’re right that trying to do mental gymnastics to imagine a biography for a belief is part of the exercise
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