[GZG] Does how people think influence the decisions they make?

G'day guys,

First up sorry about breaking every rule in the book about keeping posts on
topic and not hijacking the list for personal topics, as this won't be on
topic please feel free to stop now.

If you have kept reading I would like to reassure you i'm not after personal
details or financial support, but I am asking a few moments of your time to
help get some insights into how people think. While working on natural
resource management and climate issues its been important to deal with people
with an exceptionally broad range of opinions on how the world works. To that
end we're in the process of some research on how different people perceive the
world, and how that influences decisions they make. To that end we have a
short survey (should take less than 5 minutes to do) that we've been asking
people to voluntarily complete. So far we have a very biased sample as its
mainly researchers or people that have already worked with us. We'd really
like to get beyond that group, thus this email;)

I can't offer any reward beyond the warm glow of knowing you helped out on
science that can lead to more sustainable management of resources and there is
absolutely *no* pressure at all to do it, but if you would like to help us out
its up at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WorldViews_NoRes

<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WorldViews_NoRes>Once the research is
done I'm happy to translate it back into terms that have relevance for
gaming - it would certainly help explain why very few battles ever work
out in the way they do on our game boards;)

Thanks

Obviously, this is purely anecdotal, but I will recount the tale, anyways.

I used to load steel pieces into a walking beam furnace. During the winter, I
would often be loading from buckets of steel pieces that
were all frozen together.  At these times, I would pick up a 15-3/8"
by 2.99" by 0.788" piece of steel weighing nearly ten pounds (generally, there
were always between a few dozen to several hundred of them in easy reach) and
whack the pile to unstick the material. I was temporarily moved to another
furnace, loading different material when I encountered the same problem. I
immediately searched for my

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http://mail.csua.berkeley.edu:8080/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lYou know, Beth,
you should post this to your FB account, too, to get more
people involved.  :-)

Mk

> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:20 PM, <Beth.Fulton@csiro.au> wrote:

> G'day guys,

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Indy <indy.kochte@gmail.com> wrote:

I forwarded it to Alana and she filled it out, too.

Not sure, though, if you're getting much divergence of opinion from
us... :-)