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Brain shape 'shows political allegiance'
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RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance'
(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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RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance'
(December 31, 2010 at 4:00 pm)Ashendant Wrote:
(December 31, 2010 at 9:59 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(December 30, 2010 at 6:22 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote:
(December 29, 2010 at 5:33 am)Tiberius Wrote: As I said to ziggy last night, this is old news. Us on the right have known that leftists' brains are tiny for years. Wink

Come to America........ I want to see how you agree with OUR righties.
That depends on which ones you mean. Republicans? Not so much. Libertarians? All the way.

I think in this case it applies to republicans...
That's what I meant... republicans (the deadlier poison of American politics)
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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RE: Brain shape 'shows political allegiance'
(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.

My hero.
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