LOL and I thought my hoot an hollering routine was special.. but it is about as effective as talking to them Allan Heretic
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > As I get older my liking for shouting at the Tv has dramatically increased. > More and more often I find myself shouting at the blatant lies on TV > advertising. Only this morning wifey caught me at it and this started a > discussion on whether or not this is indicative of our (English) society > becoming more and more brain dead. Sadly I'm starting to believe it is. Or > perhaps it is indicative of my growing curmudgeoningness (which I understand > is indicative of getting older?) or perhaps both! > > On Thursday, 20 September 2012 16:52:17 UTC+1, archytas wrote: >> >> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045457 >> >> These Swedish researchers used a magic trick to show that people's >> answers to survey questions are unreliable. I noticed many years ago >> that most people haven't much clue what they are on about and can't >> tell chalk from cheese. We are, in the main, moral wuckfits. >> >> The trick used was to get people to answer a few questions but change >> a couple of the answers through a magic dodge. People argued in >> support of the changed answers. even though they were the opposite of >> the views they'd only just expressed. We have known 8 out of 10 cats >> prefer Whiskas to powdered glass for many years (one of our pampered >> pouch-devourers has just turn his nose up at Sheba as though I was >> trying to poison him). Why do we have so much trouble taking in the >> notion that companies pay for advertising because most people are >> gulled by it and basically so stupid most of them operate with the >> brain on switch off? >> >> This paper isn't all that interesting in-itself. What is interesting >> is that much more material like this is appearing on PLos through open >> access. One hopes the move away from vanity publishing and restricted >> access. Over the years I found less than one in a hundred academic >> papers worthwhile (one reads thousands in a research project and at >> least half are likely to be outside the university's subscription and >> cost $10 or so through inter-library loans - or $40 to the private >> punter). >> >> Science doesn't have much comforting to tell us on human nature - this >> is probably why most people don't want to know. It's probably time to >> a new treatise on human nature. Economists are just discovering the >> 'triune brain' (I was taught brain stem, reptilian, mammalian and the >> cerebellum 45 years ago - I note that adds up to 4 and quadrune). In >> fact there's plenty of reasonable science that demonstrates we are >> lying, cheating, rationalising, broadly stupid bastards and some do >> this in spades (we call them leaders or psychopaths) and most on a >> less daring scale. >> >> Rather than describing human nature, great literature hides it from us. > > -- > > > -- ( ) |_D Allan Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. I am a Natural Airgunner - Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. --
