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Comment by aantix

Michael Abrash once told about a study where the participants were shown a ball on the screen and the idea was to push the controller up, in an effort to keep the ball above a virtual line in the middle of the screen.

The first group was unknowingly given full control of the ball via the control, the second randomly was given some control, the third group had no control.

Only those with a depression diagnosis were able to properly assess when they had no control.

Wish I could find the original source..

parent aantix 10 years ago

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