Nicholas Epley
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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So we have about 100 people, about 50 married couples in this experiment.
Some folks have just been together for a short while.
We had one couple that was together for over 40 years, so for a long time.
And what we had them do was just a little bit of mind reading.
We had them guess, one person, guess how their spouse, the other person, would fill out a series of attitude items, of personal preference kinds of questions.
Things like, I often think our family's too heavily in debt these days.
That seems like a pretty important thing.
You ought to know about what your spouse thinks.
Or I would rather spend a weekend in London than in Paris.
So some sense about what their preferences are.
Or if I could go back in life, I sure would do things differently.
Sense of whether your spouse is living with some deep regrets or not.
And for each of these statements, the spouse could indicate that they strongly disagree or strongly agree with that.
And we had one member predict how their spouse would respond, and then the other spouse actually responded.
And then we can look at accuracy.
Out of these 20 items, how many do people guess exactly correctly?
What we found, that after 10 years of marriage on average, they are a little better than chance at guessing exactly correctly how their spouse is going to answer these.
Instead of three, which is roughly what chance would be, they answer about four and a half correct.
Maybe that's just the state of the world.
It's just hard.
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