William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nusbaum coauthored a paper in the Journal of Memory and Language that reported on a group of experiments said to provide the first evidence of "analog acoustic expression" -- people unconsciously modulating their voices in ways that provide an additional channel of expression understood by others.
No, really?
Yeah, that does sound obvious.
Is it because it's the first time scientists have looked into this?
Sounds like. 'Cuz nothing is true until Science says so....
It's our tone discussion... now with science!
Is it because it's the first time scientists have looked into this?
Maybe somebody was just looking for a way to spend some grant money.
She deafened me with science!
(heh, type "silence" first)
Where's Rick? He needs to step in with "I've read the whole paper and what the article fails to convey is..."
I do wish that there were fewer articles like that, ones that seem to trumpet the obvious as a scientific discovery, because it does contribute to scientists seeming more isolated from real life and less useful.
Can someone talk me through why this is news? Is it because it's the first time scientists have looked into this?
because now there's data.
It is true that sometimes the obvious, conventional wisdom, type things turn out not to be true, so it's not like the data is meaningless because "everyone knows that!"
Because sometimes the "everybody knows that!" things turn out to be wrong? (edit: or, what Jesse said)
The two faced cat and the lipsticked fish are both super creepy. Eeek.
I have so far today done an hour long conference call, several emails, and a half-hour long call with someone else for work. I think I'm ready for bed. :)