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All research involves risk. If your project can’t fail, it’s development, not research.
Posted on August 12, 2011
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde - Phrases and PhilosophiesPosted on July 16, 2011
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R.I.P. Kit Kat, 1995-2011
Posted on July 6, 2011 with 1 note
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You might not know this but one of my responsibilities as commander-in-chief is to keep an eye on robots. I’m pleased to report that the robots you manufacture here seem peaceful. At least for now.
Posted on June 24, 2011
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One might suspect neuroscientists, as opposed to lay people, to be so familiar with the low-level hardware of the brain that they have come to understand just how to think about such mysteries as consciousness and free will. And yet often it turns out to be quite the opposite: many neuroscientists’ great familiarity with the low-level aspects of the brain makes them skeptical that consciousness and free will could ever be explained in physical terms at all. So baffled are they by what strikes them as an unbridgeable chasm between mind and matter that they abandon all efforts to see how consciousness and selves could come out of physical processes, and instead they throw in the towel and become dualists. It’s a shame to see scientists punt in this fashion, but it happens all too often. The moral of the story is that being a professional neuroscientist is not by any means synonymous with understanding the brain deeply - no more than being a professional physicist is synonymous with understanding hurricanes deeply. Indeed, sometimes being mired down in gobs of detailed knowledge is the exact thing that blocks deep understanding.
Douglas Hofstadter in “I am a Strange Loop”Posted on June 19, 2011
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Jude and Waffles
Posted on April 23, 2011
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Despite popular conceptions, research has failed to support the claim that groups of individuals can attain high-average levels of performance in judgments of truth and deception. Most experiments have shown that people perform at no better than chance level (DePaulo, Stone, & Lassiter, 1985; Memon, Vrij, & Bull, 2003; Vrij, 2000; Zuckerman, DePaulo, & Rosenthal, 1981); that training programs produce, at best, small and inconsistent improvements compared with naive control groups (Bull, 1989; Kassin & Fong, 1999; Porter, Woodworth, & Birt, 2000; Vrij, 1994; Zuckerman, Koestner, & Alton, 1984); and that police investigators, judges, psychiatrists, customs inspectors, polygraph examiners, and others with relevant job experience perform only slightly better than chance, if at all (Bull, 1989; DePaulo, 1994; DePaulo & Pfeifer, 1986; Ekman & O’Sullivan, 1991; Garrido, Masip, & Herrero, 2004; Granhag & Stromwall, 2004; Koehnken, 1987; Porter et al., 2000).
On the Psychology of Confessions - Saul M. KassinPosted on April 20, 2011
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Katie Couric Investigates the Sillies
Posted on March 13, 2011
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We’re Number One
Posted on February 28, 2011
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Vancouver Moms sure are resourceful…
Posted on February 28, 2011
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