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I am a chemistry undergraduate from Istanbul, and I am currently doing my double major in Material Engineering. I was born and raised in Istanbul, which is my current place of residence. I have come across LessWrong through my attempts to search for forums of like-minded people, and LessWrong seemed to be a decent choice. I am alien to the forum culture, except for Reddit which is more of a social media platform than anything else.
My journey with rationality is a turbulent one, to say the least. Even if I was able to come to sensible con... (read more)
I believe the process of getting the ”high-quality pottery” is partially flawed in this experiment. If people are going to be overexerted on making only one pot, the quantity group does the job of quality group, but only better. What I could suggest is that the quality group is asked to make a certain amount of pots, but with the liberty to analyse and break down the pots. For instance, the quality group should be able to do a sound or surface test. The quantity group, on the other hand, could make more pots but without the ability to look through them. Could this be a more sensible experiment?