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Zensee -> RE: $8.5 million Vs My Free Observation (10/27/2006 1:20:27 AM)
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I haven’t been able to find a mention of the study on the U of M site or on Sheng He's faculty page. Doesn’t mean it’s not there.
I haven’t found any mention of the cost of the study so I don’t know where the $8.5 million figure came from. Some talk jocks mouth perhaps? That’s speculation though, as was the original, insinuating assessment of the study in this thread. The research asked much deeper questions than were men visually stimulated by naked women. In fact it counted on that to conduct the experiment.
From the ABC article (bold emphasis is mine). quote:
“So, these data are less about sex and more about our subconscious and how the brain reacts to subliminal information.
The brain can process what cannot be seen, such as subliminal presentations of erotic, violent or other emotional stimuli. But the scientists did not know whether the brain can act on this invisible information.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota wanted to see how powerfully subliminal images could affect our ability to pay attention.”
Sounds less lke a money-waster than a little bit of clarity towards a bigger picture.
As hostile as BushBaby is to science I don't think it's responsible to manufacture outrage like this. (Those damned marble-tower intellectuals wasting our precious money inventing the 21st friggin’ century!)
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