Sometimes feelings are beneficial, sometimes they cause harm, it all depends on the intensity and the situation.
On Fri 8 Feb, 2019, 7:43 AM Rajendra Pal Singh <[email protected] wrote: > Ideally, if the mind is free of stress, of whatever kind, it works better. > You need a little anxiety to work, but if the level increases your > judgement becomes wrong. Your feelings impair your functionality. > > On Fri 8 Feb, 2019, 7:33 AM archytas <[email protected] wrote: > >> I've long thought our measures of intelligence are dire. This is from >> Rutger Bregman's book 'Utopia for Realists'. You can get the book free >> here >> http://www.basinkomstpartiet.org/uploads/5/3/4/7/53471687/utopia-for-realists-by-rutger-bregman.pdf >> >> It all started a few years ago with a series of experiments conducted at >> a typical American mall. Shoppers were stopped to ask >> what they would do if they had to pay to get their car fixed. Some >> were presented with a $150 repair job, others with one costing >> $1,500. Would they pay it all in one go, get a loan, work overtime, >> or put off the repairs? While the mall-goers were mulling it over, >> they were subjected to a series of cognitive tests. In the case of the >> less expensive repairs, people with a low income scored about the >> same as those with a high income. But faced with a $1,500 repair >> job, poor people scored considerably lower. The mere thought of >> a major financial setback impaired their cognitive ability. >> Shafir and his fellow researchers corrected for all possible variables in >> the mall survey, but there was one factor they couldn’t >> resolve: The rich folks and the poor folks questioned weren’t the >> same people. Ideally, they’d be able to repeat the survey with subjects >> who were poor at one moment and rich the next. >> Shafir found what he was looking for some 8,000 miles away >> in the districts of Vilupuram and Tiruvannamalai in rural India. >> The conditions were perfect; as it happened, the area’s sugarcane >> farmers collect 60% of their annual income all at once right after >> the harvest. This means they are flush one part of the year and >> poor the other. So how did they do in the experiment? At the time >> when they were comparatively poor, they scored substantially >> worse on the cognitive tests, not because they had become dumber >> people somehow – they were still the same Indian sugarcane >> farmers, after all – but purely and simply because their mental >> bandwidth was compromised. >> >> Interesting. >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
