Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class IV Part II [9.15.15]
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The Lincoln Bedroom Story
In the mid 1990s, there were accusations that the Clinton administration was auctioning off access to the Lincoln bedroom to the highest political donors. Now if you frame it as friends do favors for friends, that's called an equality matching social Schema. When you frame itas an auction, it's a market pricing. And that makes it much more offensive. The Democrats were much more likely to cut Clinton's slack when you gave an equality matching excuse.
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