madviking
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Thicker brains or thicker heads? At times, I can't tell the difference.
New Study: Liberals have Thicker Brains
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BasketCase
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No. They don't. The difference is, liberals are (currently) not willing to take action to alleviate whatever suffering they happen to be witnessing.
For example, people who execute women for adultery. I'm willing to start wars in order to kill such people. Are you? Probably not. Waving protest signs usually fails to effect any real change. When the protest signs fail, are you willing to pick up a gun and fight for what you believe in? If not, you won't get it.
How about when bold font fails? Will you put down the pom poms and actually pick up that gun? Otherwise, that short little cheerleadin' skirt might get you some unwanted attention.
stuge
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Meh, this is really lame. I mean, what good is the Worldwide Liberal Scientist Conspiracy, if the pickup lines it produces are like this: "Hey babe, wanna see proof that my anterior cingulates are out of this world?"
Because... uh... we actually thought about it and realize that starting wars is not the only way to alleviate suffering and that starting wars actually cause more suffering and not necessarily the best way to bring about the end of suffering.
"Care for other human beings" is not an exclusively conservative or liberal stance. Get over it.
JerichoHill
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there's no issue with sample size assuming they can state that its a random lot. You don't need a huge sample to have a sample size that gets your significance if its done right.
Which it isn't
And its not peer reviewed.
I have big doubts
For example: Liberals witness that people in the US are suffering because they don't have health insurance, so they take action and make laws so these people will get health insurance and good health care. They took action against the suffering they saw happening happening.
Oh wait....
Both conservatives and liberals spot suffering and try to alleviate it, they are just trying to tackle different forms of suffering.
The lack of empathy actually occurs when you cannot realise what 'the other' partisan group is actually feeling.
an amazing number of psychology studies only truly apply to "college age Westerners", because they're our biggest source of volunteers. While there probably are trends that can be inferred, it's important to not put too much truck into these results.
Other than wondering if they've kept up to date on the newer MRI statistics, I actually don't really have doubts, even without peer review. It's quite likely that 'conservative' and 'liberals' have different shaped brains, and that with an N=90, you could find regions that are different. I'd still like to see that r value, of course. Finding statistical differences aren't hard. It's interpretation that's hard.
Just to bring more information, the amygdala is an important part of PTSD. I wonder if there's an increased susceptibility? As well, the phrase "a liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet" certainly can be interpreted with amygdala as a conversation point.
The two regions are heavily interconnected, anyway.
an amazing number of psychology studies only truly apply to "college age Westerners", because they're our biggest source of volunteers. While there probably are trends that can be inferred, it's important to not put too much truck into these results.Other than wondering if they've kept up to date on the newer MRI statistics, I actually don't really have doubts, even without peer review. It's quite likely that 'conservative' and 'liberals' have different shaped brains, and that with an N=90, you could find regions that are different. I'd still like to see that r value, of course. Finding statistical differences aren't hard. It's interpretation that's hard.
Just to bring more information, the amygdala is an important part of PTSD. I wonder if there's an increased susceptibility? As well, the phrase "a liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet" certainly can be interpreted with amygdala as a conversation point.
The two regions are heavily interconnected, anyway.
aimeeandbeatles
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Or they TRY to ... only to have the other side block it all and it ends up not doing a whole lot at all. And then the other side complains that nothing gets done.
danjuno
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Progressive and Conservative trains of thought existed in other societies well before the US was created.
GhostWriter16
Deity
We can't kill them all, the US isn't invincible...
That said, people who are willing to torture people and send them to concentration camps simply because they spoke a word against the government or follow a religion? That crosses the line, destroy their leaders.
The frontal cortex, which has reciprocal connections with both of the discussed regions, continues to develop as you mature. Even if a region is 'bigger', it can still be inhibited or have its input (or output) modulated by other brain regions. As well, you can learn new things, which will bias your outlook.
Like you said, the US alone can not fix these problems. Maybe liberals want to fix it, they just think war is not the answer.
ParkCungHee
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"Progressive" and "Conservative" have very little to do with Left and Right.
JohnRM
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So, what you're telling me is that my brain is swelling? How long do I have to live?
Statistical trends can handle a little ambiguity.
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