[Ailist] FW: "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" Effect?

[Andre Ling]

Greetings :)

I can't site a study but I can say that when we had our first round of
small-group appreciative conversations (before even getting started with the
interviews) with the executive committee at the start of the whole AI
process I've just been working on, it had some pretty profound effects on
the group of people involved. Given their position within the organisation,
it could be also expected to help set the general climate for what was to
come... and things did go rather smoothly... Not that this is rigorous
research. :) But the participants did express that they wanted more dialogue
of this sort in the future and that it had brought them closer together at
some level...

I wonder how one might actually go about doing this kind of research in a
rigorous manner... If you get any ideas please do share!

--    *Andre Ling*

*collaborative explorer-activist working for inter-subjective improvement in
the quality of life on planet earth*

http://andredevblog.blogspot.com/

2008/6/28 Mark Berns <mberns at mindspring.com>:

> Folks,
>
> A thread on the ODNet list was prompted by a member's observation that
> there
> seemed to be some change in the client system very early in his data
> gathering. He asked if anyone was aware of research supporting what is, of
> course, one of the core aspects of AI - that change begins with the first
> question.
>
> I know I've read and heard a lot of support for the premise but I don't
> know
> of studies on it so figured I'd forward the question to this list. Can
> anyone help?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Berns
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:23 PM
> Subject: [Odnet] "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" Effect?
>
> As most of you know, I'm engaged in a project with a fairly large
> Pentagon agency - 1200 people.
>
> I'm in the process of conducting my organizational study, interviewing
> roughly 10% or 120 people.  I'm currently nearly half way through.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if there might be a sort of "Heisenberg
> Uncertainty Principle" effect to conducting such a large scale study -
> whether the act of asking the questions, of trying to measure the
> situation, may actually begin to change the climate in & of itself.
> Especially in a situation like this where I'm asking questions that
> people appear, for the most part, to never have thought of asking before.
>
> Does anyone know whether there's been any work done on a question like
> this?  Whether this possibility has been studied?
>
> Shalom,
>
> Robin
> --
>
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