Compared to face-to-face groups, video-conferencing groups showed lower levels of confidence in their decisions, especially if they were instructed to discuss their beliefs and assumptions underlying their estimates and not the estimates themselves.
"I don't know if they were instructed to double back and get the tree -- because my tent and everything else -- but they pinpointed just the tree," Philly told WGNO.
Surely the countless Ph.D.s at the central bank could figure out ways to make the financial system spread the wealth around naturally, if they were instructed to develop such alternatives.
Nor are the training instructors blinded, since they will know if they are instructing a patient undergoing chemotherapy or a healthy control subject.
Even if they were instructed and trained together preceding the interviews, some variation in their withdrawal behaviour could be observed in the videotapes.
If they clearly instructed your group not to watch a certain movie, go outside, etc., refrain from rebelling.
Claimants will be liable for their own legal costs if they choose to instruct lawyers, but it is anticipated that the arbitration procedure will be more streamlined than court procedure, and that the arbitrators will be inquisitorial - charged with proactively uncovering the truth of the matter, rather than simply evaluating each side's arguments.
It was as if they had been instructed to keep their mouths shut at all costs.
Occasionally, the assistants appear in the photographs, hunching down or covering their eyes with hat brims, as if they'd been instructed to remain invisible.
He said the agents asked staff members if they had been instructed to accept applications from illegal immigrants — who are not eligible for aid — or from friends of local politicians who did not meet eligibility requirements.
