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From the Vault: The Moses Illusion

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Moses Lusion Experiments - Is There a Time Limit?

In a typical set up for these moses lusion experiments, readers will be warned that some questions will contain incorrect presuppositions. So it's not just like a trick question where they don't know this is coming. But i can still imagine someonea falling for this or, or, youknow, erring in answering this question. In these experiments, it does seem to be a very robust effect. Like a substantial number of people will fail to detect errors in questions even though they later showed that they possess the knowledge to answer them correctly. The exact percentages of the effect, though, vary a good bit.

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