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Feedback on the Announcement of Site Upgrade

A little error in the announcement mail for the site upgrade triggered some feedback. In minutes after the notification was sent we received messages pointing out that the month should have been June - not March but 20th of June at 19:00 UTC (Btw that is today!). A quickly issued correction brought another interesting view to our attention:

You'd be surprised to know that the common man's faculty to read is not like a computer i.e. we don't take each word in. So when you wrote 20 March, most brains would analyse only 20 and the next word would simply be interpreted as 'month' and brain would take it for granted that the month would be the current one. Consequently, most people would have 'interpreted ' it as 20 June but for your second mail when we went back to check the first mail to see that yes it was 'March' written there while we'd thought it June only.

Incidentally, dates would be interpreted correctly. Had you intended 11 July and wrote 11 Mar by error, the mind would pick up the error instantaneously knowing fully well that 11 of this month is already past.

Basically, thanks for drawing OUR attention to YOUR folly which had otherwise been gracefully unnoticed :-)

With Regards
Dr Saurabh Bhatia
MBBS(AFMC), MS(Psy)
Clinical Psychotherapist and Behavioral counsellor
TS MINDBEND PSYCHOTHERAPY & PSYCHO-ASSESSMENT CENTER
http://www.DoctorAtYourDoorstep.com

Posted at 11:15AM Jun 20, 2006 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |