Do you know about the psychological phenomenon known as priming?
If you only read those emails after others determined they referred to child pornography, you will be highly, highly primed to use that same lens.
When you walk into a store and see a coat is $199 and there's a price of $450 with a slash through it, you think this is a great sale. The truth is the coat always was $199 and they never ever sold it at $450. It's incredible.
Psychology teachers have done experiments with their class like Think of the last two digits of your phone number?
Now write down the number of countries in Africa? This something most people don't know, but when you look at the whole class. People with high cellphone numbers guess a higher number. This is a repeatable phenomenon.
If you really want to see what's going in John Podesta's email, read them in sequence and see if they strike you as strange. Emails are not formal documents they are conversations, it's unreasonable to expect you would understand every bit of a conversation other people you don't know are having.
Ps. Do you think I’ll do better playing dominos on cheese than on pasta?
You don't need priming to think that sounds odd. While there's no solid proof that this is a code for child trafficking, there's some creepy stuff involved here. If anyone looks into Pizzagate and says "I don't know what's going on here, but some of this stuff is creepy"; that's a reasonable opinion.
There are definitely pedophiles, and human trafficking is real. I can't say that's what these emails are about, but hopefully if anyone's curiosity is piqued, it can help draw awareness to a serious issue.
If you think that email is creepy, you've been primed. Odd does not mean creepy. Yes, it's odd phrasing But so what? These are two old friends having an email conversation, why would you think you should understand all of their references? There's nothing here to make you think it's some secret code. There's not just no solid proof, there's literally zero evidence that this email relates to child trafficking and when you look at it, seems to relate to Christmas presents.
By the way, I would do better on cheese. Nowadays I eat too many carbs, I get hella sleepy.
There are definitely pedophiles, and human trafficking is real. Yes, and? Should we randomly accuse people of being criminals to draw attention to crimes they didn't commit? Should we be trawling through photos of people's kids and speculating if they have been abused?
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VIP740 ago
I don't know what all is true, but there are some weird emails on WikiLeaks, and some people with unsettling taste in art.
AreWeSure ago
Do you know about the psychological phenomenon known as priming?
If you only read those emails after others determined they referred to child pornography, you will be highly, highly primed to use that same lens.
When you walk into a store and see a coat is $199 and there's a price of $450 with a slash through it, you think this is a great sale. The truth is the coat always was $199 and they never ever sold it at $450. It's incredible.
Psychology teachers have done experiments with their class like Think of the last two digits of your phone number?
Now write down the number of countries in Africa? This something most people don't know, but when you look at the whole class. People with high cellphone numbers guess a higher number. This is a repeatable phenomenon.
If you really want to see what's going in John Podesta's email, read them in sequence and see if they strike you as strange. Emails are not formal documents they are conversations, it's unreasonable to expect you would understand every bit of a conversation other people you don't know are having.
VIP740 ago
You don't need priming to think that sounds odd. While there's no solid proof that this is a code for child trafficking, there's some creepy stuff involved here. If anyone looks into Pizzagate and says "I don't know what's going on here, but some of this stuff is creepy"; that's a reasonable opinion.
There are definitely pedophiles, and human trafficking is real. I can't say that's what these emails are about, but hopefully if anyone's curiosity is piqued, it can help draw awareness to a serious issue.
AreWeSure ago
If you think that email is creepy, you've been primed. Odd does not mean creepy. Yes, it's odd phrasing But so what? These are two old friends having an email conversation, why would you think you should understand all of their references? There's nothing here to make you think it's some secret code. There's not just no solid proof, there's literally zero evidence that this email relates to child trafficking and when you look at it, seems to relate to Christmas presents.
By the way, I would do better on cheese. Nowadays I eat too many carbs, I get hella sleepy.
There are definitely pedophiles, and human trafficking is real. Yes, and? Should we randomly accuse people of being criminals to draw attention to crimes they didn't commit? Should we be trawling through photos of people's kids and speculating if they have been abused?