[Dialogue] Any colleagues connected with Rensselear Polytechnic Institute?

[Jack Gilles]

Depends if there are 1,000 monkeys.

Jack

On Aug 9, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Tracy E. Longacre wrote:

> Didn't this used to be called the 100th monkey phenomenon?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
> [mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of James Wiegel
> Sent: 09 August 2011 14:49
> To: James Wiegel; Colleague Dialogue
> Subject: [Dialogue] Any colleagues connected with Rensselear Polytechnic
> Institute?
> 
> All it takes to change
> Globe and Mail 8/9/2011
> 
> "To change the beliefs of an entire community," says Discovery News, "only
> 10 per cent of the population needs to become convinced of a new or
> different opinion, suggests a new study done at the social cognitive
> networks academic research center at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.  At
> that tipping point, the idea can spread through social networks and alter
> behaviors on a large scale."
> 
> 
> Jim Wiegel
> Jfwiegel at yahoo.com
> 
> When physicians were given a gift a bag of candy they were better at
> integrating case information and less likely to become fixated on their
> initial ideas and coming to premature closure in their diagnosis.  --  Some
> study I read about somewhere
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