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To: ahhaha who wrote (3378)	11/2/2001 8:42:12 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

ahhaha - From Emergence,by Steven Johnson, page 243, quoting Mitchell Resnick - ...Some researchers argue that the centralized mind-set is hardwired into our brain; in other words, we default to top-down explanations and only reconcile ourselves to bottom-up explanations after extensive training. "People also view the workings of the economy in centralized ways, assuming singular causes for complex phenomena. Children, in particular, seem to assume strong governmental control over the economy.... In interviews with Israeli children between eight and fifteen years old, psychologist David Leiser (1983) found that nearly half of the children assumed that the government sets all prices and pays all salaries. Even children who said that employers pay salaries often believed that the government provides the money for the salaries. A significant majority of the students assumed that the government pays the increased salaries after a strike. And many younger children had the seemingly contradictory belief that the government is also responsible for organizing strikes." Resnick, 123. Regards, Don