....Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives....
...liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.
Off Topic, you decide.
don
Too funny!
Reminds me of the news reports of all the Clinton staffers removing the "W"s from their computer keyboards as their last official act.
No wonder the results don't fit a normal distribution!!!
-mpm
I'd say the study can be invalidated, because in the US the letter 'W' has a political connotation. Even though the order of the letters were reversed in the experiment, the fact that not pressing W came first would have pre-conditioned the brains of each participant.
In the first case liberals would naturally avoid the 'W', even going so far as to hate it outright, avoiding it at all costs. This would severely skew the results of the 1st part of the experiment. By the time the 1st part of the experiment was complete they would be trained as to how to perform the experiment so, when the 2nd phase was performed they knew to avoid the M "like the plague".
Scientific fraud, I say!
Tom P.
Yep. It's for certain that Liberals are Pavlov's dogs ;-)
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Hope This Helps! ;-) Rich
I suppose what all this means is that your the one who needs to learn to spell!
^^^^
Enough said.
Jim
There were three misspelled words. And one above.
Guess you don't know what the difference between grammar and spelling is?
Really? Which one is that? Again, word find's no spelling errors, only grammar errors. Simply because I used your instead of you are or you're doesn't mean its a spelling error. Its a grammatical error because I used the possessive form. I make that mistake all the time along with a few others. If I knew I was going to be grilled about my grammar(let alone my spelling) I would have never posted to this NG... I didn't realize it was alt.grammar-checker.
Unfortunately I didn't do that well in english class and never understood the reason why so many people get so upset over mundan issues. I'm a phonetic writer and its just easier for me to do it the way I do... when I'm typing at 50wpm my brain makes more of a connection with how a word sounds than some abstract rule I was suppose to learn in english class in the 3rd grade.
As far as I'm concerned, if your and you're sound the same spoken then they can be written the same because if requires a person to understand what is meant by the context when spoken then it should be no different than when read.
Suppose for example I had no hands to type and I had to dictate what I wanted to send a text message using a speech recognizer. Now how do they get it right? or do they? and if they don't then why?
I guess I feel that there are more important issues in life that one needs to worry about rather than if its your or you're, their or there, too or to. Spelling is not nearly as important as grammar(for a multitude of reasons).
Hmm... now that I think about it, maybe those that bitch the most about spelling and grammar issues are those that have the worst analytical ability to gather information from context. If you can figure out your from you're in a spoken context but not the correct form in written context then isn't there some disconnect there? If you get hung up on simple grammar or spelling issues then doesn't it mean your mind cannot figure out the meaning from context?
Or maybe its just that people stumble when they see a misspelled word and it causes them to loose concentration?
In any cause I'll bet that if a person cannot handle a few misspelled words a few simple grammar mistakes then chances are its cause they are not as smart as they think. If they would focus more on what the other person is trying to get across and the context then maybe they would do better.
Oh, I get it now... the better the speller you are the smarter you are, right? (just because we all know that idiots cannot spell it means that IQ is monotonically related to it)
Hmm... I guess I better brush up on my spelling so I can increase my IQ a few points... guess I need to get rid of some of my math and science books to make room though...
Yes, your sentence ending in "is" has horrible grammar, but a new word formed by a contraction of two other words cannot properly be replaced with a fourth word: that's not a grammar mistake, it's a spelling error. A common one, by still rather jarring to the reader who scans past it.
Good... get off my back and go learn some math. You don't see me bitch about at you about how much you suck in that do you?
Is you're and your is a misspelling? Read Wikipedia on Misspelling, near the bottom of the first section:
you're: you are your: belonging to you
Yes sir, two different words. Using one in place of the other is a careless, or perhaps ignorant, spelling error.
Again, this is Wikipedia on spelling errors.
Do I ever make such a mistake? Yes. But I certainly can recognize it and I don't naysay anyone who corrects me, because they're right. Is it important? Damn yes!
That's an insult to Pavlov! he would never have kept those sick dogs.
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Why is spelling important in casual communications?
John
just for you.....:)
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Martin
It's an indicator of the amount of care and thought the writer put into his or her writing.
Sometimes, the misspellings are downright scary. ;-)
Hope This Helps! Rich
And why is that important is casual communications?
John
And a signal of their training and intelligence.
^^ Given all the heat generated in some s.e.d. threads, I'm not sure how casual they really are. But also consider, these are posts that are seen worldwide, and are saved and indexed for viewing at anytime in the future, by searching the poster's name, available to be shown, highlighted and advertised at will.
That's not my idea of a casual conversation, such as we might have while sitting at a pair of barstools.
I suspect a few people here would be just as pompous sitting on a barstool (not you, Win.)
I don't type very well, especially when it doesn't matter, and I don't care if the whole world knows it. This is an electronic design group, not alt.english.usage, or alt.usage.english, either.
What we need here is a thread on adaptive equalizers for LVDS data over CAT5. Anybody working with that?
John
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