But the volunteers who got zapped generated significantly more unusual uses than the unzapped control-group thinkers, and they produced those unusual uses much faster.
That meant those in the controlgroup were more likely than average to be regular users, and therefore were not representative of the population at large.
Again, the high-status participants were perceived as much more empathic and attentive toward the laid off workers than were the controlgroup and the high-power managers.
Conducted under the auspices of the World Health Organization, it interviewed morethan 5, 000 people afflicted with glioma or meningioma brain tumors, along with a controlgroup, from 13 countries.