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Question: How Can People Disambiguate Best?

What Makes Task Type Matter?

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Look at order of appearance of "success" and "busy"/"activity".

Paraphrases:

• 88%: Most success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
• 12%: Success comes to most of those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Truth conditions:

• 40%: Of 1000 executives, 600 scored "high" or more on success, and 450 of these scored "high" or more on activity level.
• 60%: Of 1000 executives, 600 scored "high" or more on activity level, and 450 of these scored "high" or more on success.

Do we want causes to appear before their effects?