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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5946807" data-attributes="member: 54877">I think there are a lot of emotions that get moved and influenced by what other people have said.  I'm not so sure there are a lot of thoughts that get moved or influenced.  Of course, it's really hard to say, sometimes even in person, what is driven by emotion versus what is driven by thought.  Even harder online.  But I do think that once someone has made up their mind, random posting on the internet is unlikely to change it much. In any case, the effect noted is less likely to be a problem that other related effects.  Say you are thinking X, but it's still rather nebulous.  If someone comes along and provides more insight into X, perhaps in a way you had not considered yet, and it sounds good--you are probably going to integrate that into your thoughts eventually anyway.  Heck, you might have thought of it yourself next week. So in this case, the open playtest isn't so much as guiding your choice as speeding up what you will eventually come to think anyway.  How many times have you thought X.1, and then much later, after something was done, realized version X.4--and then thought, "I wish someone had told me that earlier." Where it can get to be a problem is when someone says Y in a non-intuitive way, or you aren't ready for that yet, or you just don't like the guy or how he said it.  Then people start reacting to that (i.e. emotion) instead of the thoughts--and someone may very well reject Y out of hand, without really considering it.  And of course, there is only so much you can do here, because what can set people off is sometimes as simple as difference in mannerisms.   I've found that the hardest thing to consider fairly is something that you were ready to do/think/agree anyway ... and then that something is supported by a person with an attitude you really don't like.  You were on your way into the store to get a sandwich when some obnoxious jerk yelled in your face, "Go buy a sandwich!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  It's easy to want to spite that guy.  I've tried to take that attitude that obnoxious dude has zero control over me.  I'll go buy my sandwich just like I planned, even if obnoxious guy thinks he pushed me around.   This is difficult to do, and must be a conscious decision. I bet everyone a bucket of bits that they get more "bias" in the playtest results from that last effect than people having their minds changed by arguments on the internet.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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