In Reply to: RE: Thanks posted by Christine Tham on March 3, 2010 at 10:16:33:
"The experimenter knew what the answers were, and was subconsciously conveying the answers through body language to "successful" subjects."
Also, if you have multiple subjects taking a test in the room at the same time, they can be potentially influenced by each other's body language. As a result, their perceptions can not be considered statistically independent, which means that the statistical power of an experiment is substantially reduced (depending on the numbers listening at once).
"The M&M paper is interesting, but wasn't the paper I was thinking of."
Check the attached link. Perhaps this was the paper you were trying to remember.
Tony Lauck
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Follow Ups
- RE: Thanks - Tony Lauck 12:36:53 03/03/10 (2)
- Thanks Tony for the link to the paper (nt) - Christine Tham 14:26:50 03/03/10 (0)
- RE: Thanks - Ryelands 13:03:56 03/03/10 (0)