keannu
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This might be a psychological question not an English one, but I guessed there might be something I don't realize related to English regarding my doubt why the testees didn't see the instruction related to "but they literally did not see it."
I can't understand why they didn't see it, Are they special people? When you join a test, you are supposed to follow the instructions given.
ex)We look for data to support our initial assumptions, and do not notice contradictory evidence. Since we cannot register all the data that our senses can bring us, we focus on what we want to see and do not see things that do not fit our assumptions. Confronted with the same shop-window, the housewife may eaily 'see' a quite different collection of objects from that 'seen' by her husband. In a management game used at the London Business School, one of the instructions for one group was 'You report to the head of group X'. In nearly every exercise the group had overlooked the instruction. Why did they do so? They did not realize their supposedly subordinate position. They had not disobeyed the instruction, but they literally did not see it.
I can't understand why they didn't see it, Are they special people? When you join a test, you are supposed to follow the instructions given.
ex)We look for data to support our initial assumptions, and do not notice contradictory evidence. Since we cannot register all the data that our senses can bring us, we focus on what we want to see and do not see things that do not fit our assumptions. Confronted with the same shop-window, the housewife may eaily 'see' a quite different collection of objects from that 'seen' by her husband. In a management game used at the London Business School, one of the instructions for one group was 'You report to the head of group X'. In nearly every exercise the group had overlooked the instruction. Why did they do so? They did not realize their supposedly subordinate position. They had not disobeyed the instruction, but they literally did not see it.
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