In over 100 interviews with adults who have worked with young people for at least two decades, reported in our book "The App Generation," we found an unexpectedly strong consensus: Compared to their predecessors, youth growing up today are much less likely to take any sort of risk (unless explicitly told to do so, in which case, of course, it is no longer a risk).
One of the acts he is best known for is the destruction of ninety-two video tapes documenting the multiple waterboardings of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned the September 11th attacks, and Abu Zubaydah, an alleged Al Qaeda operative, in secret prisons — tapes that he had been explicitly told to preserve as part of an official investigation.
According to a classic study by Ellen Langler, even when players are explicitly told their chances of winning, they choose to trade worse odds for the ability to play the numbers they spent the time and effort picking.
If you are an academic scientist, then it is likely you were either explicitly told the rules of academic science, or you were able to somehow infer them and make choices to fit in or at least make others think that you fit in.
Participants were not explicitly told about the organization of the word stream in pairs manipulating (a) semantic relatedness, (b) language of the prime and (c) language of the target in a fully counterbalanced two-by-two-by-two design.
The participants in the present studies were encouraged to respond as quickly as possible and were explicitly told that the purpose of the study was to determine where they perceived target location and not where they remembered them to be.
On the other hand, 27percentt of respondents explicitly told us they would be less likely to purchase littleBits products as a result of us speaking out.
We are explicitly told that the Pythagoreans accepted one of the premises of this argument, that the center is the most important part of the cosmos (Arist., De Caelo 293b2 3), and it is likely that the whole argument should be assigned to Philolaus (Huffman 2007, 76 80).
No city lawyer has explicitly told the jury the purpose of such questions.
