Comments on: Separating Observation from Evaluation http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/separating-observation-from-evaluation Equipping Managers via Requisite Organization Systems Design. Talent Management, Leadership, Organization Design. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:30:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Michelle Malay Carter http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/separating-observation-from-evaluation/comment-page-1#comment-940 Michelle Malay Carter Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:10:23 +0000 http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/?p=418#comment-940 Hi Evelyn, Thanks for stopping by and for sharing this study. It is interesting. Yes, self knowledge and self awareness are oddly difficult faculties to develop. It takes intention coupled with experience and maturity. Thanks for the comment. Regards, Michelle Hi Evelyn,

Thanks for stopping by and for sharing this study. It is interesting.

Yes, self knowledge and self awareness are oddly difficult faculties to develop. It takes intention coupled with experience and maturity.

Thanks for the comment.

Regards,

Michelle

]]> By: Evelyn http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/separating-observation-from-evaluation/comment-page-1#comment-929 Evelyn Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:29:42 +0000 http://www.missionmindedmanagement.com/?p=418#comment-929 I just finished reading Strangers to ourselves : discovering the adaptive unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson. One of the examples in it is of a study done at a British Columbia University. An attractive female survey taker approaches men in two different places in a park. She interviews them, and at the end of the interview says "I'm running out of time, but here's my number, call me if you have any question about the study." She writes her number on a corner of the survey form and tears it off and hands it to them. The study, of course, was to find out what proportion of guys called her, depending on what location they were in. The first location was at a bench near a little hill. The second location was in the middle of a very narrow swaying suspension bridge. 30% of the guys on the bench called. 60% of the guys on the bridge did. The psychologists suggested that the 'extra' guys on the bridge who called confused their physiological arousal at being on the swaying bridge with attraction for the female survey taker. From this, I wonder, how are we supposed to know what we really feel in any situation? I just finished reading Strangers to ourselves : discovering the adaptive unconscious by Timothy D. Wilson.

One of the examples in it is of a study done at a British Columbia University. An attractive female survey taker approaches men in two different places in a park. She interviews them, and at the end of the interview says “I’m running out of time, but here’s my number, call me if you have any question about the study.” She writes her number on a corner of the survey form and tears it off and hands it to them.

The study, of course, was to find out what proportion of guys called her, depending on what location they were in. The first location was at a bench near a little hill. The second location was in the middle of a very narrow swaying suspension bridge.

30% of the guys on the bench called. 60% of the guys on the bridge did.

The psychologists suggested that the ‘extra’ guys on the bridge who called confused their physiological arousal at being on the swaying bridge with attraction for the female survey taker.

From this, I wonder, how are we supposed to know what we really feel in any situation?

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