Sometimes desire distorts perception

wolf · 02-01-2005, 01:40 AM

Reminds me of an old psychology study about perception based on expectations ... same article was passed around with either a male or female's name as the author ... subjects mostly reported that the female's article was more poorly written than the male's.

Schrodinger's Cat · 02-01-2005, 03:21 AM

Who says Gates is NOT stressed? Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't. He's the head of his own outfit, not a nation. Surely the qualities required for the two different jobs would be more an intersection of sets rather than a union of them. I don't get the problem here.

02-01-2005, 01:40 AM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Reminds me of an old psychology study about perception based on expectations ... same article was passed around with either a male or female's name as the author ... subjects mostly reported that the female's article was more poorly written than the male's. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-01-2005, 03:21 AM	#2
Schrodinger's Cat Macavity Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A Black Box Posts: 157	Who says Gates is NOT stressed? Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't. He's the head of his own outfit, not a nation. Surely the qualities required for the two different jobs would be more an intersection of sets rather than a union of them. I don't get the problem here. __________________ Macavity, Macavity, there's no on like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. - T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

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