On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:17, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote:
> Was reading 'Don't! (The secret of self-control)' (by Jonah Lehrer) > in the May 18 issue of 'The New Yorker'. In that article, a > psychology experiment (developed I believe by a team headed by John > Jonides at the University of Michigan) is described: Subjects are > shown a list of four random words, two in red text and two in blue > text. After reading the words, they are told to forget the blue > words and remember the red words. Later, the subjects are shown a > stream of words, and for each are asked if it was a word they were > told to remember. [The scientists are counting how often incorrect > (blue) words are remembered by individual subjects.] > > Seems to me "homework" consists of a teacher handing out work - the > pupil returns the result - the teacher evaluates what was returned. > Here we have a very similar situation - a scientist hands out work > - the subject returns the result - the scientist evaluates what was > returned. > Sort of like a tiny built-in "Activity-aware" Sugar email client? -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc
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