RE: Human brain activity during stone tool production.
May 2, 2018 at 5:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2018 at 5:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Igno
IKR? A real clever feature of that study...that you'd have to read the whole thing to tease out..was the manner in which they controlled for incidental correlation between ESA knapping and linguistics.
After you read it and see their data...you think "fuck, ofc!" - but the earlier researchers totally missed it and I hadn't thought of it before I read it either. In the process, they discredit those earlier studies findings not on the basis of the accuracy of their conclusion..but specifically on their method- while simultaneously providing even greater support for the very proposition in question that those earlier researchers had sought..and failed, to find.
@Anom
The data suggests that oldowan tool manufacturing is a waste of a theist's brain..even...if that can be imagined. I guess they can always hang their hat on that.
OTOH, it presents a narrative in which the very foundation of telling stories about fairies is ultimately rooted in making clubs to beat your neighbor over the head with....and wasn't it ever thus?
IKR? A real clever feature of that study...that you'd have to read the whole thing to tease out..was the manner in which they controlled for incidental correlation between ESA knapping and linguistics.
After you read it and see their data...you think "fuck, ofc!" - but the earlier researchers totally missed it and I hadn't thought of it before I read it either. In the process, they discredit those earlier studies findings not on the basis of the accuracy of their conclusion..but specifically on their method- while simultaneously providing even greater support for the very proposition in question that those earlier researchers had sought..and failed, to find.
@Anom
The data suggests that oldowan tool manufacturing is a waste of a theist's brain..even...if that can be imagined. I guess they can always hang their hat on that.
OTOH, it presents a narrative in which the very foundation of telling stories about fairies is ultimately rooted in making clubs to beat your neighbor over the head with....and wasn't it ever thus?
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