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I disagree. If a person truly believed a bullshit answer was true they'd pick it over I don't know. The experiment shows that given an incentive to not think in partisan talking points, people will admit they know that what they would normal espouse as truth is, in fact,bullshit.

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Or, given an incentive people will answer with what they believe the other person wants.

Presuming the subjects truly believed their first-choice answers were factual, then why would they be under the impression the researchers want to hear something else?

Because they aren't dumb? The science man want to hear the science man answer. The priest wants to hear the priest answer. Granny wants to hear you like school, the cool kids wants to hear you think it is lame.

Different people, different answers. Plenty of people learn what to say at what point pretty darn early.

Right, but how would they identify that "science man answer" is correlated with the truthful answer, without in fact knowing what answer is truthful?

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