Your Bio 108 Midterm scores will be posted on eee very soon. "
-Dr. Salme Taagepera, PhD
See, now I feel like I’m part of a gigantic psychology experiment. I wonder if the number of times I reload my e3 page to get my bloody grade is being monitored, like how they measured the frequency at which rats would press a switch to get some form of pleasure inducing drug in older psychology experiments. The thing is, a lot of bio majors get really anxious about their grades. I usually don’t give a damn but I worked for this one so I wanna see how I did god dammit.
We get our bio tests handed back in lab. It doesn’t help that the guy across and over from me who tends to act like a complete moron got a 98 and I got… considerably less.
Psychology experiments are fun. Especially when no one tells you to do them.
Me and a friend once put chairs into a pile. Called it art. And then noted how people reacted to it. Of course, they all got pissed when they realized the chairs were taken from the classrooms.
Another good one is to leave out a tray of samples (of either a food or beverage product) and when people ask “are these samples?” [yes, people actually DO ask this obvious question] and then say “yes” to them…
…and after they greedily start digging in and stuffing their faces, mention something about how they’re 50 cents a piece or a dollar a piece or something. [they only asked “are those samples?” nobody ever said anything about them being free samples.]
It’s an urban legend at work. Dunno if anyone’s actually done this in an experiment setting, or even just to fuck with people.
[they only asked “are those samples?” nobody ever said anything about them being free samples.]
haha.