• Photograph of an axe stuck in a tree stump

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    A woodsman was once asked, “What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?” He answered, “I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.” Let us take a few minutes to sharpen our perspective. probably not Abraham Lincoln I'm pilot-testing a simple choice task - participants indicate two different attitudes on a set of issues, then see pairs of photographs from protests about those issues. Participant task is to choose which group of protestors they support more. The goal of the study is to see how the different kinds of attitudes influence the decision-making. (Specifically, I'm modeling the data using a drift diffusion…