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knee jerk

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That's a large number, and consultant Tom Devane says it's the result of what he calls knee jerk offshoring.
Of course, many of us are still scared, but you can't have a knee jerk reaction when you are making decisions like that," she said.
He found that context was relatively unimportant, indicating that the senses are linked "neither at the lowest level [of stimulus processing and response], like a knee jerk, nor at the highest level," where imaginative or metaphoric connections might be made.
 
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