If there are, say, six squares in a room, and the caller is regularly correcting or commnenting to one off-base dancer (say, someone who is prematurely grey) the other dancers know that the prompting isn't for them. The next time they also assume that it isn't for them. And the next time, and so on. Well, when it is not that greyguy, but is that humpy 32 year old with the big moustache, Mr Moustache still assumes it is not about him, and ignores the caller.... until the caller connects to him more specifically.
It is a variation on the problem with too much patter. If callers prompt calls the dancers already know, they stop listening, and that act of "stop hearing" carries over to other situations when they need to hear.
It is so diffficult for a non-involved dancer hears the caller single out a another dancer with something like " No, trade with her..." that the defensive filters turn on and important information also gets filtered out.
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Date: 2007-11-07 06:37 am (UTC)It is a variation on the problem with too much patter. If callers prompt calls the dancers already know, they stop listening, and that act of "stop hearing" carries over to other situations when they need to hear.
It is so diffficult for a non-involved dancer hears the caller single out a another dancer with something like " No, trade with her..." that the defensive filters turn on and important information also gets filtered out.