From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 15:47:45 GMT
Hi All,
An interesting paragraph appears in a review in the NY Times this week of
the hot new bestseller, "Blink. The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by
Malcolm Gladwell. See if this doesn't remind you of Pirsig's story about
students grading the quality of fellow students' papers:
"A psychologist named Nalini Ambady gave students three 10-second
soundless videotapes of a teacher lecturing. Then she asked the students
to rate the teacher. Their ratings match the ratings from students who had
taken the teacher' course for an entire semester. Then she cut the
videotape back to two seconds and showed it to a new group. The ratings
still match those of the students who'd sat through the entire term."
I haven't read the book, but it looks to me like "Blink" confirms Pirsig's
theory that what we sense Quality prior to conscious thought.
Platt
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