How Does the Reference Class Problem Affect Average Values?

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Sometimes even the act of like making the choice changes you in this irreversible way. And so because it's just such a huge kind of psychological thing to actually make the choice in the first place. So I think the reference class problem, as ordinary as it is, actually takes on special significance in this context.

Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.