Tag: experiment
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Humans will always struggle to be content
In 2018, Brandon Speck wrote an article in www.livescience.com about “Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment“. It details a series of experiments which show how important context is to humans in how they perceive world around them. 200 subjects were shown 1,000 coloured dots and asked to identify which were blue, and which were purple.…
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You care, but do you care enough to do something about it?
A small London based charity The Pilion Trust have released a fundraising advert based on a social experiment testing the public’s opinion of poor people (contains swearing). [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBuC_0-d-9Y[/youtube] Like many campaigns which aim to solicit a reaction, this presents and extreme view and proposes that it’s all very well in saying something is wrong, but…