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# Financial Fish

## Details

**Reported in** Perspectives Organize Information in Mind and Nature (P)

**Authors** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E

**Year** 2022

**Publisher** Systems 10(3):52

[Read it at the publisher](https://doi.org/10.3390/systems10030052) 
10.3390/systems10030052

## In authors' words

### Who or what was studied (sample)

N = 392 / 342

### How they did it (methods)

Take a conceptual (financial) perspective versus an animate (fish) one.

Badges: reversed a prior claim

### What they found (results)

Conceptual perspectives taken 2.29× more readily than animate (OR 2.29, p < 0.001). 61.3% produced a correct conceptual response against 47.4% animate.

## Commentary

### Response

This reverses what the authors previously claimed and what two decades of anecdotal experience suggested — and was published with the reversal stated openly. Practical consequence: teaching perspective-taking by leading with 'take the frog's point of view' starts with the harder case.

Shows the structure is there

## Questions it bears on

- Q3. [Does this organization (O) exist in the mind, and in what minds produce?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/completeness-mind)
- Q11. [What are perception and attention?](https://dsrpevidence.org/question/perception-attention)

**How to cite this** Cabrera D, Cabrera L, Cabrera E (2022). Financial Fish. Systems 10(3):52.