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pre-att. factors usually come out if researcher spends long enough in field to begin noticing anomalies (things don't add up)

psychol. working on info - have found can only remember 7 simple info bits (5 complex)simul- taneously before having to impose a hierarchical order on them
can cluster elements & sum which
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a form of hieiarachiging 

in soc. groups beyond about a dozen (a jury) get hierarchies                     
an army squad



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4/16 - on decision-making, Alice likes Sutti Ortiz

start w/ article in Themes wh/ her first:

limit to amt of info we can process

Dec. making same if Pres General Motors or peas. farmer - pres. Gen Motors [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] may have more info, but must be transformed into simple units

worked w/ Paez indians in mtns Colombia raising coffee as cash crop; also subsist crops & pattern of decision - making for the 2 (cash & subs) very diff

for cash crop, decision making closely approximated classic model
is comp. between 2 for [[strikethrough]] lal [[/strikethrough]] land, labor

coffee small in quant. & very good quality, so not affected by supply & demand - can each grow all they want & doesn't affect price
some studies of fishing commun. show if all make large catches, price drops

main constraint land

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