<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:17, Mikus Grinbergs <<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com">mikus@bga.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote><div> Sort of like a tiny built-in "Activity-aware" Sugar email client? </div></div>-- Luke Faraone <a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a>