Linear Telephone

It's interesting that these functions not only become more noisy but more linear.

Here each row is a chain of people passing along a function relating X to Y. Each person first guesses and is corrected on 50 (X,Y) cases, then just guesses on 100 more cases. The final guesses of the last person become data for the next person. The final relations are all basically lines, 7/8 with a positive slope, 1/8 with a negative slope.

-Overcoming Bias

I'm a strict Westerner myself... but this reminds me of a talk by Alan Watts: