Of these, 1223 were instances of distraction and 1066 were instances of mind-wandering.
Of these, 10.73 (SD = 6.12) were instances of distraction and 9.35 (SD = 4.24) were instances of mind-wandering.
Additionally, unlike probe caught methods, diary methods likely underestimate instances of mind-wandering when participants are unaware that they are mind-wandering.
For each individual's diary we counted the total number of reported disengagements as well as the total number of instances of distractions and total number of instances of mind-wandering for both in class and while studying.
In the first moments after the news broke, thousands of people reached the same conclusion at the same time, a nice instance of hive-mind solidarity, and the Spotify and YouTube tracking numbers will surely reveal a massive spike for his song "He Stopped Loving Her Today," which is one of the great sad songs in the American songbook, written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman.
What I did enjoy, however, was filling in all those crunchy rare letters and entries like SEX SHOP, BOX STEP, POLEAXER (a rare instance of my not minding their making an awkward word by adding -ER on the end), PLAIN JANES, and the best EXIT LINE of all time: Your thoughts?
He is questioning whether this subject-independent criterion has to be understood as a transcendent reality, for instance, a world of mind-independent and presumably physical things in themselves.
Film obsessive Smith has slipped vintage movie samples into the songs, and even these point to his state of mind: for instance, Warmth starts with a male voice intoning "Getting caught up in the circus-like atmosphere, feeling less responsible", and the track accordingly vibrates with the yearning for a safe haven.
Second, research is called for that includes further measures of social understanding to establish the nature of the social deficits involved, for instance by using various theory of mind tasks [ 64].
The spread of Bill James's ideas on baseball, from mimeographed sheets to the front offices of the Red Sox, is a nice instance of how a scientific turn of mind spread to a place where science hadn't usually gone.
(See, for instance, "Parts of Classes" (1991a), "Reduction of Mind", "Truthmaking and Difference-making" (2001d).) The second is contingently true if true at all.
