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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:21:35 EST
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- From: Matthew Simpson <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
- Subject: RE: handwashing ethics
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:54:18 CST from <ECO_GXC@SHSU>
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- I'm sorry if this example has already been used. I haven't been following
- the letters on this topic. Never the less, here is a anecdote for
- you all.
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- In my pregraduate year, if I remember correctly, one of my professors
- cited a study in social psychology, a study of proximity. You know the
- old phenomenon that shows people walking faster down the hall if they have
- to walk between two people having a conversation; that shows automobile
- drivers driving away from a stop sign at faster speeds if there is someone
- at the corner watching the driver. Evidently, as the professor cites, in men
- there is a correlation between length of time spent urinating and
- distance between the man standing at the next urinal. The closer men stand
- next to each other while urinating, the faster they pee.
-
- The professor was not teaching us social psychology at the time, but rather
- research methods and the importance of ethical consideration. Evidently,
- the researcher had mounted a camera in the men's bathroom. The class got a
- kick out of the idea that someone would actually be so bold to mount a
- camera in the bathroom.
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