But what if other scholars had arrived at very similar measurements, independently of Eratosthenes? Wouldn’t that make you consider that the estimates might be correct, and that Eratosthenes and his fellow scholars must be quite bright?
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We ask participants to evaluate the accuracy and competence of players in fictional games. They don’t know anything about the game, nor about the players.
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Participants take this into account: in experimental conditions with a systematic bias, they infer less accuracy and competence from convergence.
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