A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that people who comply with social distancing guidelines have better working memory capacity, which is an indicator of intelligence.
People who social distance may be more intelligent, study says
So your girlfriend is a dunce?
ReplyDeleteGregarious people are said to be more fun.
Blondes are said to have more fun.
1 + 1 = 11
“ people who comply with social distancing guidelines have better working memory capacity,”
ReplyDelete“ Solomon Shereshevsky (Luria, 1968) had an almost perfect literal memory. He remembers strings of hundreds of digits for years after only having read them once. I would like to explain this by his awesome synesthesia: everything is encoded in so many ways that everything is considered as new, and so a new memory trace is formed to remember it (we know that "first time" experiences are well remembered (Robinson, 1993), as are distinctive features (Hunt & Worthen, 2006)). Shereshevsky's gift was compensated by big difficulties recognizing (visages, which he considered extremely changing) and had basically no understanding of abstraction: metaphor, figurative language.”
https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/4538/is-abstract-knowledge-incompatible-with-literal-memorization
It's rather cleverer than that. Those that want masks are the ones that are scared. They are scared because they respond to propaganda - rather than making their own judgement by looking at the hard statistics from the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.
ReplyDeleteThose who respond to propaganda are also those susceptible to marketing messaging and are easiest to part with their money. So they are the ones you want in the shops.
Therefore you force all the punters to wear masks which stops interaction with anybody other than the friendly unmasked shop workers who will politely relieve you of your money.
I have to say I'm impressed. It's almost as clever as reducing school catchment areas by introducing "free choice".
Have to say I rather like this tweet. It's a little disingenuous, but no more so than the constant "you can only compare Sweden to Norway and Denmark and certainly not Belgium where the centre of the EU is based".
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“ rather than making their own judgement by looking at the hard statistics ”
ReplyDeleteThey don’t have the training Neil...
I trained myself to click on links. If I can do it, you can do it.
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