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Re: Self-referential poll
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BTCurious
on 31/10/2011, 00:19:41 UTC
You give no reasoning why it is rational to choose the majority. Actually, you're trying to prove that that is the rational thing, which makes this whole thing a circular reasoning.

It's the rational or rather the determined response because it requires a majority to fulfill. Thus it makes it the most likely one to be correct. If you're wrong, the poll will be a mess in the end thus showing there is no consistent human behaviour in this test.
If your axioma is: "Humans have consistent behaviour." Then that would be an okay reasoning. Also, your axioma would be horribly wrong.