Jesus, I've been busy. No time to do the studies and volunteering I've done past summers. But today I spent just over an hour doing a survey-based study about cognitive and behavioural factors that influence a person's beliefs (UBC Department of Psychiatry research). It was long but kind of interesting. The first and third sections asked you how much you believed a statement and asked you to rate the importance of factors that influenced that belief, such as education, social influences, popular media, etc. The second section showed three statements, one after another, each building on the one before it, and, after each statement, asked you the plausibility of four possible scenarios. The fourth asked questions about certain statements and whether you strongly disagreed, disagreed, neither agreed not disagreed, agreed, or strongly agreed with them. The fifth asked about how you rated your own personality traits (e.g., I am nervous meeting new people) and, again, asked how much you agreed or disagreed. The sixth and final section showed a fisherman with two lakes, each with some black and white fish. Once you saw what colour of fish the fisherman caught, you had to rate the likelihood that he caught it from each lake.