Re: virus: Re: parroting
Robert Moritz (robertmoritz@earthlink.net)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 02:58:14 -0500
stephen fleming wrote:
>
> Wade T Smith replied to :
> >>If you answer a question
> >>correctly about that meme then how else would you have answered it
> >>unless you knew about that meme?
> with :
> >By repeating, like a parrot, what you heard....
>
> which means that you've heard about the meme, and therefore "knew about
> it". Or am I being facetious ? (is that how to spell facetious ?)
>
Perhaps better responses would be found through indirect questioning
about behavior. Like: 'if you were in this and this situation, what
would you do?' That would probably reduce 'parroting' a response, and
let you see which memes are truly internalized and affecting behavior
besides that of answering.
Robert