Comment by euclid on Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You · 2019-05-07T14:33:43.353Z · LW · GW

About the idioms experiment: isn't the fact that the idiom actually means say, that the future looks good, evidence that an uninformed person would think it means that? Because, whatever you originally thought it meant, there might be some logical reason for its actual meaning, which you missed. So is it possible that the subjects were being rational?