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How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs

TurtleDude said:
so what does your fear of gun owners signify?
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Good point. Conservatives and Liberals were shown images of ACTUALLY disturbing things in the study so it clearly shows conservatives have an stronger reaction to reality.

So.. Liberals looking at picture of a mutilated body:

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And.. Liberal looking at picture of a pistol:

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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he spends all of his time fishing while you take care of his woman.
 
shrubnose said:
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he spends all of his time fishing while you take care of his woman.
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Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for a lifetime.
 
Captain America said:
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>

How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
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Perhaps relying on a "study" of 83 people to come to a definitive conclusion that "conservatives focus more on the negative" is why many conservatives, myself included, are very skeptical of junk "science".

Just from a personal perspective, I don't find any pictures of nature to be "disgusting" - the odder nature is, the more fascinating I find it even if often it scares the hell out of me. The insect in the pic didn't disgust me at all in its depiction - it seems beautiful and fascinating and yet if it was crawling on my face when I woke from sleep I might find it totally disgusting.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Perhaps relying on a "study" of 83 people to come to a definitive conclusion that "conservatives focus more on the negative" is why many conservatives, myself included, are very skeptical of junk "science".

Just from a personal perspective, I don't find any pictures of nature to be "disgusting" - the odder nature is, the more fascinating I find it even if often it scares the hell out of me. The insect in the pic didn't disgust me at all in its depiction - it seems beautiful and fascinating and yet if it was crawling on my face when I woke from sleep I might find it totally disgusting.
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I hope you understand that your opinion on what is and isn't "junk science" has lost a lot of meaning since you advocated using science to incubate a baby in a dead woman's body. The fact that this study is on a peer reviewed journal at one of the world's most prestigious universities doesn't help your case much either. Anywho, for those interested in this peer reviewed "junk science", here is the Cambridge University link:

Cambridge Journals Online - Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology

In this article, we argue that one organizing element of the many differences between liberals and conservatives is the nature of their physiological and psychological responses to features of the environment that are negative. Compared with liberals, conservatives tend to register greater physiological responses to such stimuli and also to devote more psychological resources to them. Operating from this point of departure, we suggest approaches for refining understanding of the broad relationship between political views and response to the negative. We conclude with a discussion of normative implications, stressing that identifying differences across ideological groups is not tantamount to declaring one ideology superior to another.
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Captain America said:
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>

How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
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The study is interesting, though, the musing in the article on the fact is rather odd and sounds biased. The way to look at it, I should think, would be to think about the evolutionary impact of the behavior modes that probably both have survival value as they are both seemingly found in significant numbers in the population. There have been BTW other studies that I could imagine related to this one, where we find that rather stable proportions of human populations tend to trust people they do not know, while others will distrust them.
 
Hatuey said:
I hope you understand that your opinion on what is and isn't "junk science" has lost a lot of meaning since you advocated using science to incubate a baby in a dead woman's body. The fact that this study is on a peer reviewed journal at one of the world's most prestigious universities doesn't help your case much either. Anywho, for those interested in this peer reviewed "junk science", here is the Cambridge University link:

Cambridge Journals Online - Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology
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Why should you not "incubate" the baby in a brain dead mother's body? Would you prefer letting it die? I mean, the mother's body is not dead and you would probably accept her heart.
 
I can't see any photo. What's up?
 
Captain America said:
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>

How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
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The real story is how quickly one could click the X on the moving advertisement box in front of the article. :mrgreen:
 
joG said:
Why should you not "incubate" the baby in a brain dead mother's body? Would you prefer letting it die? I mean, the mother's body is not dead and you would probably accept her heart.
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There are two things wrong with the post above. One, you have no idea idea what medically dead means and two, you don't have a clue what the case entailed. This wasn't a person on week 28 or 29 being kept "alive" until the fetus was viable. This was a case of keeping a medically dead person from decomposing for 10+ weeks and hoping whatever came out of her wasn't completely deformed or stillborn. That was a science experiment being performed for the sake of a flawed and ridiculous sense dignity and hoping that if given a chance, things wouldn't turn out completely wrong. Thats junk science. Without precedent, without concern with the ethical ramifications of the experiment, without scientific literature to even support a theory, supposed disbelievers of junk science argued that this woman's corpse should be kept moving for what basically amounted to a what if scientific scenario. That's junk science.
 
What exactly is disgusting about an insect photographed in a completely unnatural setting? Asks the dragonfly. :mrgreen:
 
Hatuey said:
There are two things wrong with the post above. One, you have no idea idea what medically dead means .....
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"Medically dead"? You probably mean "clinically dead". When you have looked it up, you will see why I used the term "brain dead".
 
Dragonfly said:
What exactly is disgusting about an insect photographed in a completely unnatural setting? Asks the dragonfly. :mrgreen:
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I thought of you and how the remark was somewhat racist. It just isn't nice.
 
Lutherf said:
I just get a kick out of all these studies that try to prove some physiological difference between liberals and conservatives. It's kind of silly but at some level it's also disturbing. I mean if you're searching for a "scientific" difference then what do you do when you find it?
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Use tricky (subliminal?) political ads to sway the voters and try to increase the exposure to (and alter the slant of?) government provided education. It is interesting that entire states would seem to have more folks with similar brain activity patterns and that city folks and country folks would also tend to have different "political lean" brain wiring patterns. Does this mean that the brain affects the environment or that the environment affects the brain?
 
Hatuey said:
I hope you understand that your opinion on what is and isn't "junk science" has lost a lot of meaning since you advocated using science to incubate a baby in a dead woman's body. The fact that this study is on a peer reviewed journal at one of the world's most prestigious universities doesn't help your case much either. Anywho, for those interested in this peer reviewed "junk science", here is the Cambridge University link:

Cambridge Journals Online - Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology
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I hope you appreciate that your opinion of my opinion is of even less value than the junk science you cite.
 
joG said:
"Medically dead"? You probably mean "clinically dead". When you have looked it up, you will see why I used the term "brain dead".
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'We were told to say our goodbyes': Parents' relief as daughter who was declared medically dead for seven MINUTES survives | Daily Mail Online
Bernard Gallacher: my cardiac arrest poleaxed me
Doctors declare girl ‘medically’ dead; family fighting to keep her on life support after having tonsils out | KFOR.com
Lazarus syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brain-dead pregnant woman being kept on life support has fetus with severe defects - National | Globalnews.ca
Texas hospital ordered to remove life support from pregnant, brain-dead woman | Fox News
Texas hospital removes pregnant, brain-dead woman*from life support - NY Daily News
What's at issue in Texas battle over brain-dead pregnant woman - Los Angeles Times
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Good grief, people enjoy arguing about semantics.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I hope you appreciate that your opinion of my opinion is of even less value than the junk science you cite.
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Ah, so you were involved in the peer review process to get this article published? Good to know. What makes it junk science in your non-scientific opinion? ;)
 
Hatuey said:
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Good grief, people enjoy arguing about semantics.
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No. Actually I think argueing semantics is absolutly stupid. I would not have mentioned your mistake, had you not made it the basis of you statement, when accused me of not understanding the term.
 
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