you're still conflating. You are not talking about the study Larry posted, Sam, all of these insults later.
Again: > It turns out Firth was a guest editor on the daily BBC Radio 4 news > programme Today and > > <LOOK HERE> COMMISSIONED neuroscientist Geraint Rees </LOOKHERE> > > to scan the brains of two prominent UK politicians one staunchly > liberal and the other a confirmed conservative to look for > differences. > so how do you get "predetermined" from "see what the scientists had to stay." I mean, really. How? > The study states it's all assumptions based on the findings. > > -- Results offer POSSIBLE accounts for cognitive styles of liberals > and conservative > well yeah, it's always "possible" when it comes to science, Sam, because your data is only as good as your sample and your model. Duh. But that doesn't mean we stop doing it or can airily dismiss study results that don't please us. At least not without explaining why. Although these results suggest a link between political attitudes and > brain structure, it is important to note that the neural processes > implicated are likely to reflect complex processes of the formation of > political attitudes rather than a direct representation of political > opinions per se. The conceptualizing and reasoning associated with the > expression of political opinions is not necessarily limited to > structures or functions of the regions we identified but will require > the involvement of more widespread brain regions implicated in > abstract thoughts and reasoning. > the key word here is not necessarily. They found a statistically significant difference, and weren't sure why. It's still statistically significant. Not knowing why doesn't make they finding either "predetermined" or "nothing". You should pick one of those and stick with it, by the way, as they kinda contradict each other. > > /me listens to crickets. > > > > that's what I thought > > No you did not > giggle, there you go again, you silly bastard you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:346938 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
