Day of Media Observence

[Gabby GaGa]

I have a friend who's already putting together a messageboard book.
but im sure they could always use some (profitable) help.

Kahl -

religion was one of many subjects i picked

these are 3 of 20 catagories and sub-catagories I chose


Religon
- history belief, practices
American history -
kenndy isn't dead
Quail is president
biology -
metabolism, growth, life cycle.

These are all argument presented to subjects for them to "disprove"

this is also a helful study because it provides an outline for illogical rationalization, and methods that subjects use to cope.

My favorite was a study I did for the pop culture reference crowd,

In which the argument was that Elvis wasn't dead, and some current idols are robots.

Of course, any common ninny can figure out this isn't true.
However, when a linguist debates the argument with the test subject,
(which i either myself or a selection of Drs.)
we try to use one of two methods, which will extract an the desiered or unknown patterns.
The "elvis and kennedy aren't dead" scenerios are the easiest to debate, because of the copious amounts of contradictions available for refference.
That study is the one in which an illogical argument will unvariably "win"
so the person gives their efforted but failing answer.

The second study is the one in which the subject should always win the argument, because of the sheer stupidy of the it. This path is intersting too, because the even though the argument presented is nonsensical and easily argued, subjects often percieve a threat to their own personality, and their conscience automatically uses one of four teqniques to cope.

and what was your latest project, Kahl?