You can't learn can you? The study was an intended insult. It defies logic. People change there minds all the time or do you truly believe they can't. If a liberal radio station gave someone money to prove their point would you call it science? Yes you did.
The only thing they proved was that science says nothing. They said they have tiny differences that might be able to stand out for something but don't rely in it to mean anything. It does not mean one side thinks in black and white and the other side is smarter. To believe that's what the study says is stupid. Did I mention the entire study, three if you insist, were funded by the radio station? . On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > just to be totally obsessive,  here's the link and the heart of the > statistical validation. Note: p=0.011, which based on some semi educated > googling, indicates, according to the pretty little chart here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_normal_distribution#Standard_deviation_and_confidence_intervals > > that this result is three standard deviations from normal, in other words > very unlikely to have occurred  by chance. > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/ > > The gray matter volumes of ACC and the right amygdala allowed the > classifier to distinguish individuals who reported themselves as > conservative from those who reported themselves as very liberal with a high > accuracy (71.6% Ä 4.8% correct, p = 0.011). This suggests that it is > possible to determine the self-expressed political attitude of individuals, > at least for the self-report measure we used, based on structural MRI scans. > > > > now the rest of the number crunching, : matter volume of anterior cingulate > cortex and right amygdala from each individual to train a multivariate > classifier [9 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16791142>]. A > leave-one-out procedure with cross-validation was used to determine how > well this classifier could predict whether an individual was conservative > or very liberal when trained on the other participants' data > > you got me. No clue. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:346961 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
