email regarding the precog experiment
Apr. 19th, 2004 03:04 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
To: M-A
CC: Jamie, Doug, Angelo, Paige, Amanda, Clarice, Marie
From: Kitty
Subject: The stock experiment
Hey all,
I know M-A spoke/emailed with you guys briefly about this, but here's the basic plan. Starting this Monday I'll be brining you a list of twenty stock names, they're current market value, and what they did during their last trading session (basically, exactly what the newspaper says, and don't ask me what the little marks mean, I don't really know, I'm just copying them down.) You get to then tell me whether you think the stock will go up or down, and how much. Everyone besides M-A is essentially a control group, and one of our controls is a general lack of knowledge about stocks, so don't go doing any research on any of the companies, and we'll be all good. The first phase of the experiment will run for two weeks, me bringing you the stock pages and getting your opinion on what they're going to do next every morning or so.
After that M-A is going to learn enough about the stock market for the symbols to make sense, and then we'll try again, but if you don't want to be involved in the second round we can probably find other people to fill out our control group.
Thanks for everything, and I'll see you all in a couple of hours!
-Kitty
CC: Jamie, Doug, Angelo, Paige, Amanda, Clarice, Marie
From: Kitty
Subject: The stock experiment
Hey all,
I know M-A spoke/emailed with you guys briefly about this, but here's the basic plan. Starting this Monday I'll be brining you a list of twenty stock names, they're current market value, and what they did during their last trading session (basically, exactly what the newspaper says, and don't ask me what the little marks mean, I don't really know, I'm just copying them down.) You get to then tell me whether you think the stock will go up or down, and how much. Everyone besides M-A is essentially a control group, and one of our controls is a general lack of knowledge about stocks, so don't go doing any research on any of the companies, and we'll be all good. The first phase of the experiment will run for two weeks, me bringing you the stock pages and getting your opinion on what they're going to do next every morning or so.
After that M-A is going to learn enough about the stock market for the symbols to make sense, and then we'll try again, but if you don't want to be involved in the second round we can probably find other people to fill out our control group.
Thanks for everything, and I'll see you all in a couple of hours!
-Kitty