[MUD-Dev] Source data on Crossbow

[Daniel Carruth]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, rayzam wrote:

> I wonder if it's possible to be psychosomatic. Is there enough
> time to know you've been shot, to then fall over? It shouldn't be
> too hard to measure this time and compare it to reflexes and
> conscious actions: Find 25 people, tell them to fall when they
> hear a shot go off [but don't shoot them!].

Actually, you would want to trick them into believing that they are
going to be shot. Telling them to fall over when they hear a shot
makes it a voluntary action when in fact you're trying to test an
involuntary action.

This brings up a problem with the previous study - did those people
know they were going to be shot? If not, how are they able to have a
psychosomatic response to an event they had no expectation for?

D. Carruth

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