Hit or Miss

http://psychologicalscience.com/maclino/?p=1119

VISIT http://www.risenchurch.com/media.php?pageID=5

AND HEAR TREVOR DEBENNING'S TALKED TITLED "STOP, HARVEST TIME" dated 4/29/12.

 

In the field of psychology in which I chose to indulge (Cognitive Science)

there is a concept called HIT OR MISS. This comes from the SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY. Basically, a signal (any stimulus, anything you can see, touch, taste, touch, or smell) is presented and you give a response (on paper or some visible way of answering according to the directions for the trial).

There may be a certain task. Let's call the task to 

raise your hand when you see a red dot appear on a screen.  

YOU WOULD THINK THIS IS EASY!!!

There are 4 possibilities to describe the response you make:

A HIT: the red dot appeared, you raised your hand

MISS: you got the answer wrong.

THERE ARE 2 TYPES OF MISSES:

1) the red dot appears, you do not raise your hand

2) the red dot does not appear, you do raise your hand (FALSE ALARM).

There is also another type of HIT called the CORRECT REJECTION. This means that you got it right. The red dot did not appear so you did not raise your hand.

Very simple science. Yes. No. What does yes mean? And what does no mean? End of experiment!

If a person keeps on getting them right then we ASSUME that they are not guessing and they can actually see the red dot. And if a person keeps on getting them all wrong then this must mean that they cannot see the red dot... of course this is not always the case, unfortunately for the researcher, you have to come up with some sort of an explanation. Then it gets hard.

We now know all about RED DOTS. But what about PEOPLE?

When we stay connected and focused we will not miss the PEOPLE we need to help. They can be right under our noses. Sometimes we ask and plead and pray to get more fulfillment. To find more people to help.

PLEASE LET ME MEET SOMEONE RANDOMLY THAT I CAN HELP. PLEASE LET THIS PERSON COME TO ME. PLEASE LET ME HAVE A SIGN. PLEASE LEAD ME DIRECTLY TO THE CORRECT DOORSTEP.

All this time we had the person's number, FaceBook account, YouTube Channel, Twitter, email, house address...

WE WANDERED RIGHT PAST THEM. WE MISSED AND KEPT ON LOOKING AND SEARCHING FOR THAT RIGHT PERSON THAT WE PRAYED WOULD COME OUR WAY.

The right person was in direct contact with us. They waited by their phone. They saw us online but we never dropped them a line. We never invited them to any outings. We just kept on searching for the RIGHT AND CORRECT answer. The red dot kept on flashing. We never saw it. Or maybe we saw it and we didn't RAISE OUR HAND. We acted like the dot never appeared. 

OR

when there may seem to be nothing, we have a FALSE ALARM situation and we focus on the wrong thing when there was nothing there at all. There was nothing to focus on. That screen was completely blank. And we kept staring at the blankness, LOOKING FOR THE RED DOT TO APPEAR.