[IAEP] [support-gang] can OLPC be applied to receiving information from the user population?

[Luke Faraone]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:17, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:

> Was reading 'Don't! (The secret of self-control)' (by Jonah Lehrer)
> in the May 18 issue of 'The New Yorker'.  In that article, a
> psychology experiment (developed I believe by a team headed by John
> Jonides at the University of Michigan) is described:  Subjects are
> shown a list of four random words, two in red text and two in blue
> text.  After reading the words, they are told to forget the blue
> words and remember the red words.  Later, the subjects are shown a
> stream of words, and for each are asked if it was a word they were
> told to remember.  [The scientists are counting how often incorrect
> (blue) words are remembered by individual subjects.]
>
> Seems to me "homework" consists of a teacher handing out work - the
> pupil returns the result - the teacher evaluates what was returned.
>  Here we have a very similar situation - a scientist hands out work
> - the subject returns the result - the scientist evaluates what was
> returned.
>

Sort of like a tiny built-in "Activity-aware" Sugar email client?
-- 
Luke Faraone
http://luke.faraone.cc
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