Como hacer que la gente te diga la verdad

Una interesante estrategia para saber lo que verdaderamente piensa alguien sobre un tema especifico es seguir el consejo de Tyler Cowen (en su libro "Discover Your Inner Economist: Using Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist"):

"To get a person’s real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes…If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. For instance, if a man has had more than thirty sexual partners, he will more likely think that such behavior is common. After all, his life is one ‘data point,’ and that data point presumably weighs heavily in his mind…Furthermore the man with more than thirty partners probably knows a higher percentage of other people with thirty partners or more. This will further encourage him to make a high estimate of how many partners other people have had… [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves."

Yo no he leido el libro aun pero he escuchado buenas criticas y estoy considerandolo para el winter break donde voy a tener algo de tiempo ocioso. Quizas deberia agregarlo a mi to-read-list que, lamentablemete, sigue creciendo...

Source: Este post de Gretchen Rubin en The Happiness Project.