As we embrace new technology that does everything but kiss us on the mouth, we risk cutting ourselves off from human interaction. For many, the iPhone has become a best friend, partner, lifeline, companion and, yes, even a Valentine.WHAT DOES HE THINK AN IPHONE IS USED FOR??!? It's for SOCIAL INTERACTION!!! Maybe people like iPhones (and Blackberries and Droids and regular cell phones) because they help us stay in touch with other people. Thanks to technology, we are MORE connected now than we have ever been.
"He advocates the technique .... essentially as a form of Lite-Brite phrenology."that my initial reaction to stories such as this is always dismissive.
DiscourseMarker: WHAT DOES HE THINK AN IPHONE IS USED FOR??!? It's for SOCIAL INTERACTION!!! Maybe people like iPhones (and Blackberries and Droids and regular cell phones) because they help us stay in touch with other people.I don't have a smart-phone of any kind myself.
truly hideousthis really rolls off the tongue. it rings so clear.
People who email the vast majority (80-100%) of their core ties weekly are in phone contact with 25% more of their core ties than non-emailers. Moreover, those who email the vast majority of their significant ties weekly are in phone contact with twice as many of their significant ties than non-emailers.Core ties are defined as "the people in Americans’ social networks with whom they have very close relationships" and significant ties are "the people outside that ring of `core ties' in Americans’ social networks, who are somewhat closely connected."
face-to-face conversations may not always be the rich, deep, and inherently superior means of communication that it is often presumed to be. The quality of face-to-face conversation was rated no higher than telephone calls (in fact, the mean quality of telephone calls was higher, although not significantly so). People having face-to-face conversations were most likely to be engaged in other activities simultaneously. In sum, our studies suggest that, instead of a trade-off between high quality face-to-face conversations and lower quality internet interactions, students are supplementing high quality face-to-face conversations and telephone calls with really good internet interactions. source.We have no way to go back in time to find out if our pre-telephone/email/text conversations were inherently "better" than our current ones. Put it this way--I can send my friend a text message saying "hey, let's grab lunch." There's still no guarantee that we will even talk at all over lunch, or that if we talk, our conversation will be somehow deep and meaningful. We could just sit there and talk trash about the other people in the restaurant.
Bennett’s point is that a suite of methods known as multiple comparisons correction can allow researchers to maintain most of their statistical power while keeping the danger of false positives at bay.posted by Pogo_Fuzzybutt at 9:43 PM on October 6, 2011
The work highlights that brain science is highly data-driven and statistical now. Although the visualizations — usually some orangey spots on an otherwise dark brain scan — seem simple, the data collection and interpretation that go into producing them is intense.
The point of the salmon study isn’t to prove that fMRI shouldn’t be used or is worthless. Brain scientists can do things with fMRI machines they otherwise couldn’t, said Ed Vul, an MIT neuroscience graduate.
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