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Brain shape 'shows political allegiance'
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RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance'
December 31, 2010 at 9:47 pm
(December 31, 2010 at 8:19 pm)padraic Wrote: I hadn't seen that. Yet another nature /nurture debate with a dubious premise.

Some tiny problems with the methodology:

What the sample size?

Self reporting is notoriously unreliable.The test needs to be evidence based.

Correlation does not equal causation. So,interesting and worth pursuing,but no more than that.

Someone in another forum mentioned neural plasticity
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Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Justtristo - December 28, 2010 at 7:43 pm
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Ashendant - December 28, 2010 at 9:25 pm
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Tiberius - December 29, 2010 at 5:33 am
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by HeyItsZeus - December 30, 2010 at 6:22 pm
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Tiberius - December 31, 2010 at 9:59 am
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Ashendant - December 31, 2010 at 4:00 pm
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Anomalocaris - December 31, 2010 at 10:17 am
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by padraic - December 31, 2010 at 8:19 pm
RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance' - by Ashendant - December 31, 2010 at 9:47 pm

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