That's probably more because the instruments we use in experiments are often designed for righties, which makes your response time and accuracy data basically junk as they'll probably all be low-level outliers. I'm sure most experiments would love to include lefties (so long as the data was flagged as being for a…

They've known about other hemisphere lateralization switches in lefties before, but I think emotion is a new one. To be noted, though, is that this is not talking about everything emotion, but specifically about approach motivation (i.e., whether or not you want to do something); it doesn't include valence emotion…

A friend of mine (Dave Gerritsen, who I'm sure will be known to the science community within the next few years) did his senior thesis on a similar idea. He tested (and someone else will be testing further next year) to see whether or not people will reciprocate kindness and helpfulness to a computer program like they…

My thoughts exactly

1. Uhhh...no. Math is not a human creation. Math exists. It doesn't matter if there's someone there to count them or not, if one apple is on the ground, and another apple falls next to it, there are now two apples. It is universal, it is constant, it FAR predates man. Now, we have invented a system of symbols and…

Hahaha, good point. Good point.

I really hate it when Utahans do stupid things and it makes the news. We already have a shitty reputation. I guess maybe this way we'll lose our overly Mormon reputation for something else...

I have always held this exact same mindset. Ideally (to me), if you want to make money from music, you can do it in three ways:

Your very first premise is completely wrong. In the case of music and musicians, very, very few actually CAN make any money from selling music. Did you not read the example about Bieber? Now think of that scaled down to someone who is getting maybe even as many as 10,000 downloads. They're getting jack squat back to…

Well then. A slap on the hand for me for awful research, and accepting professors at their word rather than verifying what they're telling me in offhand accounts. You are absolutely correct, and I am absolutely wrong. I was working from the data set in this article: [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] . Also, a kick in the nuts to…

1 - Yep, he did. He also had a higher number of glial cells than is average. We're still not sure what glial cells do, per se (though I believe there was an article recently saying that they were related to the storage of memory), but at least in one instance someone who was very intelligent also had a lot of them.

So I don't know if you just read the Wiki and assumed it was right, or what, but these graphs show that there's pretty much no correlation. By the way, those lines you see going through the graphs are simply lines of best fit, and are there as a basic marker. If you look at the spread of the points plotted, claiming…

See my reply to the other person who replied to me. Interspecies, there is a correlation (but only with regards to brain volume as a ratio to body size), but intraspecies there isn't. My bad for not clarifying that (not being sarcastic, really was my bad).

Sorry, my bad. Intraspecies, there is no correlation between brain size and intelligence. Interspecies, absolutely. Inside one species - nope, zip, zero, zilch, nada. Again, looking at Albert Einstein's brain they found it to be smaller than average, even though his IQ was estimated between 160 and 180, which puts him…

Um...larger brain size has zero correlation to intelligence, FYI. In fact, Albert Einstein had a smaller than average brain. Also, stating things as fact when they come from scientific studies is kind of wrong. Even the study itself will almost never say "IQ correlates to single gene," but instead "IQ may correlate to…

Wait...is it 1995 again?

PS, did it ever occur to you that just maybe I know a little bit about a knee problem that's been plaguing me most of my life, and that your (incorrect) correction was probably unnecessary?

It's not a buildup, it's deterioration of the cartilage under the patella. He didn't mention it by name, but this paragraph: "As I walked, my outer quads were over-compensating, and my inner quads were weak and under-used. My iliotibial (IT) bands were so tight that they were actually pulling my kneecaps out of…

Isn't chondramalasia great? I have the exact some knee problem. My right knee is a little worse because I broke my right leg when I was little and they couldn't set it properly. Your PT seems to have been much more useful than any of mine has been in the past.

Ooh ooh ooh! I did I did I did! I think Homer actually says it in an episode, ("Pfft, Groening?" or something to that effect) and that's how I knew. Plus, I know that oe is almost always pronounced "eh" not "oh".