New Years Resolution - resolve to acknowledge the new you!
Let me tell you about an experiment run by Stanford University . A group of students were each given 25 cards. Each card had printed on it a pair of suicide notes, one real and one fake. The students were asked to read each card and decide which one is the real one. A pretty macabre choice of topics, but it's what they went with. They were told that on average, people could correctly identify 16 out of the 25 cases on the cards. As they gave each answer, the researcher either said, 'correct' or 'incorrect'. Regardless of their real performance, at the end of the test they were told that they had correctly identified either 24 (success), 17 (average), or 10 (failure) notes. A few minutes later, the researchers confessed to the students that the experiment was actually about how people react to success or failure, apologised for the deception, and explained that their score was assigned randomly, and did not reflect the actual performance in the task. This is wh...