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psychgeek writes:
What people believe and what they think they believe can sometimes be very different things. The Implicit Association Test is a tool that psychologists use to measure this type of hidden, unconcious bias and prejudice. Project Implicit, at Harvard university, provides a website with an online version of the Impicit Association Test that you can use to measure your own subconcious associations, and the current "featured" test is "Microsoft vs. Open Source". It would be interesting to know how many slashdotters really feel what they think they do — do you really believe in FOSS, or are you just here for the Kool-Aid?
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Oxygen99 writes:
The BBC reports that the Church of England is considering legal action against Sony for featuring the inside of Manchester Cathedral in its Playstation 3 game Resistance: Fall Of Man without permission. The Bishop of Manchester says "For a global manufacturer to re-create one of our great cathedrals with photo-realistic quality and then encourage people to have guns battles in the building is beyond belief and highly irresponsible.". This is especially true Given Manchester's record with gun crime. Sony has not yet commented on the story.
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CFTM writes
"The New York Times is running an interesting article about how human memory works and the theorized adaptive nature of forgetfulness". From the article,
"Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is trying to recall something important. The study, appearing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, is the first to record visual images of people's brains as they suppress distracting memories. The more efficiently that study participants were tuning out irrelevant words during a word-memorization test, the sharper the drop in activity in areas of their brains involved in recollection. Accurate remembering became easier, in terms of the energy required."
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Caroline Matische writes
"People are willing to pay more to buy items from online retailers who make their privacy policies clear, a new Carnegie Mellon University study showed. People were more likely to buy from online merchants with good privacy policies and were also willing to pay about 60 cents extra on a $15 purchase when buying from a site with a privacy policy they liked."
