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29 March 2011
Thanks, bunnies! Last week I asked for your help in taking a survey for a class and you came through beautifully. I promised I would come back with the results and an explanation of the experiment, so here they are!
Huh, the experiment was so completely not what I thought it was. How it looked to me:
1) Quiz to find out what I care about with respect to cameras
2) Three cameras that differ only in one of the ways I said I didn't care about, in my case, colour. So I picked the blue one first, because that's my favorite colour and I thought they were all identical otherwise.
3) Final two cameras, one of which was the one I selected in (2) above, and the other was recognized brand name instead of one I've never heard of, but in my least preferred colour.
I figured you were testing to see if, even though I said I didn't care about colour, that I actually chose based on that over technical differences or brand recognition. It sounds like the 3 cameras shown initially actually weren't identical apart from colour, though?
Yes, we are rationalizing animals. I can't remember what my theory was any more, but I do know that it was wrong. (Too many deadlines, not enough sleep).
Niiiice. I should have intuited that it was specifically about priming, only because I've been thinking a lot about priming as it is used by various political and charitable groups I belong to.
But I didn't guess it was about priming, so go you!