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Quick, don't think of an elephant. There are many things that, when asked, people are suddenly bad at doing. I don't think that's evidence.
by slowmovintarget 10y ago
Quick, don't think of an elephant.
There are many things that, when asked, people are suddenly bad at doing. I don't think that's evidence.
- 50CNT 10y agoI've always found that these "Quick, don't think of 'x'" things are a silly example. You end up thinking of X the moment you read X, just before it gets put in context of "not" and "think". It's like telling the parser not to tokenize a given word. Then there's automaticity, which you have to turn off, which is made harder by "Quick", further setting you up to think further of elephants till you get around to grasping the meaning of the phrase.
- slowmovintarget 10y agoSo what you're saying is that this is a good example of context affecting the outcome.
- Retric 10y agoThat I had no problem doing. What's the point?