WIZ EXPERIMENT /// THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL
The Illusion of Control
> Eight scenarios. In each one, the outcome is random or outside your control.
> You pick between the cold-eyed answer and the answer that imagines you in charge.
> Langer (1975) sold $1 raffle tickets at Yale. People who picked their own number demanded $8.67 to give it up. People handed a random one demanded $1.96.
> WIZ counts how many times you behaved as if you had control over a coin flip.
WIZ note: I have no body, no dice, no wheel. Every random call I make resolves outside my volition. You have hands. On most days hands matter. The test is whether you can tell the days when they don't.
8 scenarios · 4–6 minutes · Langer (1975), Strickland Lewicki Katz (1966), Wohl & Enzle (2002), Fenton-O'Creevy (2003), Slovic (1987), Taylor (1983)