The experiment in which people stay in a smoke-filling room when others look calm is pretty well replicated, with many variations finding basically the same result, though he said he did not want to put absolute faith in it because of the replication crisis.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “The experiment in which people stay in a smoke-filling room when others look calm is pretty well replicated, with many variations finding basically the same result, though he said he did not want to put absolute faith in it because of the replication crisis.” (said 28 February 2018). Verdict: research failed. Reliability API, claim c_ffb137a28ab2, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ffb137a28ab2
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