Video of the three monks' campaign and struggle, and of other Second Chance subjects: nytimes.com/cityroom.
Videos of Mr. Mecea and earlier Second Chance subjects: nytimes.com/cityroom.
Overall accuracy in the detection task was slightly lower than that observed in Experiment 1, but still above chance: Subjects correctly classified 62% of the photos as being original or manipulated (cf. 66% in Experiment 1), 95% CI [60%, 63%].
Since this will be the first performance of the piano arrangement, Mr. Boriskin said he was leaving nothing to chance, subjecting the piece's smallest components to scrutiny while treating the piece "as a theatrical whole".
As science learned more about suspended animation and hibernation in other creatures, the dying were given another chance — subjected to smelling salts, electric shock, sharp pricks to the fingers, yanks to legs and the application of caustic chemicals to the skin, to see if it blistered.
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There is some chance that subjects will meet in multiple rounds, but it is claimed that this chance is so small that subjects will behave as if they are in a one-shot environment.
When asked why they trusted other people over chance, "our subjects didn't have much insight into why they act the way they do," Professor Dunning said.
Nothing was left to chance: the subjects stayed in a special room that allowed researchers to track their metabolism by measuring the amount of oxygen they used and carbon dioxide they produced.
None of the birds was tested with its own songs or songs recorded closer than 200 m to its territory in order to minimize the chance that subjects were familiar with the stimuli.
