Comments on: People who think of others tend to be more creative http://www.radarlake.com/2010/03/people-who-think-of-others-tend-to-be-more-creative/ Ideas in the middle of nowhere Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:19:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sara http://www.radarlake.com/2010/03/people-who-think-of-others-tend-to-be-more-creative/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Sara Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:25:24 +0000 http://www.radarlake.com/?p=864#comment-173 Empathy seems to be the new go-to idea for explaining lots of unknown human phenomena. Just the other day the Bio 12 kids asked why yawning is contagious and in doing some research, BINGO! empathy gets the credit (as one theory to explain it). I agree, correlation does not equal causation. Is empathy a fundamental human characteristic? Is it one of the things that help define us as a species? Or is it just another correlation. Empathy seems to be the new go-to idea for explaining lots of unknown human phenomena. Just the other day the Bio 12 kids asked why yawning is contagious and in doing some research, BINGO! empathy gets the credit (as one theory to explain it). I agree, correlation does not equal causation. Is empathy a fundamental human characteristic? Is it one of the things that help define us as a species? Or is it just another correlation.

]]> By: Peters http://www.radarlake.com/2010/03/people-who-think-of-others-tend-to-be-more-creative/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Peters Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:03:14 +0000 http://www.radarlake.com/?p=864#comment-172 Seems to me that the new best solution to quell global warming would be to increase the number of pirates. And since the earth was much cooler when the old style pirates were around, it makes sense to increase that kind of pirate.More parrots, eye patches, and curved sabres = less melting ice caps!! Where was this argument in Copenhagen? Seems to me that the new best solution to quell global warming would be to increase the number of pirates. And since the earth was much cooler when the old style pirates were around, it makes sense to increase that kind of pirate.More parrots, eye patches, and curved sabres = less melting ice caps!! Where was this argument in Copenhagen?

]]> By: Madeline http://www.radarlake.com/2010/03/people-who-think-of-others-tend-to-be-more-creative/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Madeline Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:58:49 +0000 http://www.radarlake.com/?p=864#comment-171 A slightly, but not quite relevant article about the context of stats. http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/guns-dont-kill-people-puppies-do/ A slightly, but not quite relevant article about the context of stats.

http://www.badscience.net/2010/02/guns-dont-kill-people-puppies-do/

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