The Locked Door and Monkey See, Monkey Do

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The Locked Door and Monkey See, Monkey Do
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The Locked Door The Secret Life of Snap Decisions

• Primed for Action Scrambled Sentences
• (1) aggressively, bold, rude, bother, disturb
• intrude, infringe
• (2) respect, considerate, appreciate, patiently,
• yield, polite, courteous
• Steel Aronsons Stereotype Threat
• Race identification and educational performance

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Getting That 6th Sense with Blue (good) Red
(bad) Decks of Cards
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The Wisdom of Crowds Independence

• finding the party on Friday
• and Saturday nights and the
• herds of UR students
• wandering around campus in
• something of a circular mill
• herding and NFL coaches 4th down decisions
• imitation and social proof
• e.g., Milgrams staring into the empty sky
  experiment
• crowd sizes and responses
• ( 1 person tiny fraction of public)
• ( 5 persons 4 times as many)
• (15 persons 45 stopped and stared)
• (20 persons 80 stopped and stared)

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The Wisdom of Crowds Independence

• information cascades
• (aggregate information like the Stock Market
• or casinos or voting systems)
• e.g., plank roads (8 vs. 4 years durability)
• e.g., telecoms and 1,000 annual growth
• good information cascades
• e.g., the humble screw
• Collective decisions are most likely to be good
  ones when theyre made by people with diverse
  opinions reaching independent, non-sequential
  conclusions, relying primarily on their own
  private information.

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Speed-Dating, the Storytelling Problem, and Group
Decision-Making

• Task
• (1.) break into teams of 2 students
• (2.) come up with 1 question of your own that you
  would want to ask everyone you met in a
  speed-dating scenario
• (3.) come up with 1 more question for your
  teammate, based on their personality, which you
  think they should also ask
• (4.) as a team, pick your 2 favorite questions
  (from your 4)
• (5.) vote as a class (crowd) on the 6 favorite
  questions
• (6.) try to come up with reasons for your
  preferences/votes