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Thanks Glenn. A most interesting article on the tricks our minds
play on us. I particularly liked:<br>
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In a study called <a title="The study (PDF)."
href="http://bit.ly/YGVYcN">“Sleights of Privacy,”</a> Mr.
Acquisti’s subjects — students at Carnegie Mellon — were divided
into two sets of two groups. Each group was asked to evaluate
professors and were given additional questions about cheating.
In the first set, half were told that only other students could
see their answers; the others were told that faculty members, as
well as students, could see the responses. As one might expect,
the group with student-only viewers was more forthcoming than
the group with student and faculty viewers. The participants
seemed concerned about who could see their evaluations. </p>
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With the other set of students, Mr. Acquisti offered the same
questionnaire — but played a little trick. After again
explaining the response rules and procedures, he asked an
unrelated question: Would they like to sign up to receive
information from a college network? That little distraction had
an impact: This time, the two subgroups were almost equally
forthcoming in their answers. </p>
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Had the distraction made them forget? No. In exit interviews,
they remembered the rules, but they behaved as though they
didn’t. “You remember somewhere in your brain,” is how Mr.
Acquisti put it, “but you kind of pay less attention to it.”<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">I wouldn't be surprised if researchers
weren't literally looking into brains with MRI-like machines to
develop more effective tricks of this type. How society educates /
warns / notifies about these "tricks to humanity" on the Net
should perhaps be a topic for investigation by the Internet
Society.<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">Best,<br>
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<p itemprop="articleBody">Tom<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/1/2013 9:10 AM, Glenn McKnight
wrote:<br>
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