I knew there were nazi scientists, but never knew there were grammar nazi scientists
It’s a big of a problem.
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Edit: come on everyone, consider the context.
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Given the context, I am shocked that you thought I was serious
Who said I was serious? I tried to continue the joke you made. Sorry for the downvotes. Irony is a gamble sometimes.
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Please do not validate my parents like this.
Maybe speak correctly so you’re not a disappointment to them?
Would be interesting to figure out what causes this. Is it the bad grammar itself or some feature of our education?
This headline makes it sound like Divjak’s paper was about grammar. They chose language as a means of testing the relationship between cognitive and physiological indicators. Department blogs misrepresenting faculty research to boost popular appeal is not helpful to anyone.
But also, even if it was about grammar, the paper describes measuring realtime stress markers like heart rate variability to infer difficulty processing information (or “mental contents,” as they phrase it) which to me sounds quite like a polygraph test. One may recall that these were abandoned years ago for their tendency toward false positives (among other things).
So naturally I would ask the authors, who didn’t mention it, the ways in which they controlled for false positives.
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