On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > you're still conflating. You are not talking about the study Larry posted,
A high school dropout commissioned Geraint Rees because: I decided to find out what was BIOLOGICALLY WRONG with people who DON'T AGREE WITH ME and see what scientists had to say about it. - CF All the studies were done by Geraint Rees. Same study, different people. > so how do you get "predetermined" from "see what the scientists had to > stay." I mean, really. How? Why did you not read this sentence: I decided to find out what was BIOLOGICALLY WRONG with people who DON'T AGREE WITH ME and see what scientists had to say about it. - CF > 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. Like it's possible to get out of it what you want and claim conservatives can only think in black and white? Is that what you got out of it? > 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. Predetermined outcome was there's a tiny weenie difference that we could use to define the two different groups but we shouldn't because that's not what the data tells us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:346940 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
