The setting was the Blue Room at City Hall, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was asked why municipal employees were being penalized for not showing up to work during a snowstorm last week - even though the city instructed most of them to stay home.
Even though the participants were instructed that the MDASI has two types of items, we cannot ensure that this information was remembered at critical moments.
This could be considered a limitation of the present study, since even though the subjects were instructed to remain upright, the trunk movements were not monitored, which may have contributed to our results.
As all four teachers in the study taught at the same childcare center, it is likely that they shared resources and information about the language stimulation techniques, even though they were instructed against the transfer of strategies and the control group promised training following the study.
But that's not all: Earlier in the school year, the same teacher had refused to let A.A. pray during recess and, during class one day, she choked him because he would not stop talking with his classmates — even though she had instructed the class that they could have a few minutes of "downtime" to do just that.
One possible explanation is that even though participants were instructed to ignore the sound, they could not ignore it.
Even though observers were instructed to fixate a dot on the screen during the entire duration of the experiment, this specific instruction would, in principle, allow them to completely ignore nontarget visual stimuli by temporarily closing their eyes.
Consequently, the finding that the two ads that tested best were produced in Australia could have been partly attributable to the Australian audience identifying more with these ads than the ads with non-Australian accents, even though participants were instructed to try to disregard such cultural differences in the ads.
Some sort of communion passes between Angela and Miss Waites which gives the little girl the ability to defy her mother for once and dash out of doors even though she was instructed to stay in the room.
However, one could argue that even though subjects were instructed not to attend to the uncued diagonal, they nevertheless did so.
