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What does "run" mean under this context? Thanks! mean?
What does "run" mean under this context? Thanks! mean?
Another study demonstrated that instructions to treat discomfort as a sign of learning only works when the topic itself is uncomfortable. In another study, participants were run during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some were given instructions that feeling nervous about reading an article is a sign of learning, while others were just given a goal to learn something new.
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That’s an odd use of “run”. The author probably meant to say something like “experiments were run, i.e., conducted.”
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