April 2012
Truth.
Real students whip out their flashlights to finish the chem final when the power goes out due to a storm. :)
Thisis me too, so don’t be weirded out if you see something being reblogged there.
Does Brain Scanning Show Just the Tip of the Iceberg? →
blogs.discovermagazine.com
Brain scans + fMRI: What are we seeing and what are we missing?
Two new studies suggest that fMRI studies, the brain activity scans that give us those “thermal blob” images we are so used to, might be the equivalent of cracking an egg with a sledgehammer. You’ll see an effect, but it’s kind of a brute force blunt object, considering the detail of the job. At the same time, when observations are made outside of “normal” experimental time frames, unexpected and interesting results can show up.
From Neuroskeptic:
As an analogy, suppose that all you knew about your neighbours was from the noises that you heard through the wall. The shouts and screams would be loud enough to reach your eyes; the normal conversations and whispers wouldn’t. If you concluded that all your neighbours did was shout, not talk, you’d get a misleading picture of their relationship.
That’s the bad news. On the other hand, fMRI is clearly more powerful than most neuroscientists have realized, and this holds out hope for cracking some of the trickiest questions facing the field in the future, with larger studies and more sensitive techniques
Does brain scanning show just the tip of the iceberg? We all know this answer is undoubtedly, a yes. Pretty nice article.
Remember neuroscience, you must first learn to walk, before you can run.
Academia
Real students run and grab coffee when a fire alarm goes off in the Psychology building.
Oh my goodness, everything about your blog is perfect. Where have you been all this time?
I’ve been right here, where have you been?!
Thank you very much! Don’t be shy, maybe take off that anon sometime and say hello.
Statistics Help
Somebody recently asked me: I am really struggling with stats (I too am I masters psych student) do you know any good websites/people to help? I know Andy Field and he is good up to a point but I am seriously stupid and sinking : (.
I thought I’d publish this in case anyone else had a similar issue, but I didn’t want to put the person’s name out for everyone to see.
Statistics is something all psychology students should learn to love, they never go away. I’m sorry that you are having a hard time grasping statistical concepts. Unfortunately, I don’t know too many specific websites that might be of help. I have found that if you Google some of the major concepts, there are usually University websites that contain the information.
Here are some that I do know that are helpful.
- Check out here for some GREAT statistics tutorial videos for SPSS.
- Here is a statistics website with some helpful information
- Or try this one.
- Try the Khan Academy
- There are also a lot of YouTube instructional videos for stats.
I hope this helped at all. If not, try doing some searches for specific concepts and find some university course pages with some helpful information. Keep trying and keep reading, eventually it’ll click for you one of these days.
Good luck!
Does any one else have any online resources for statistic help? I’ll add any suggestions to the list.
“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”
—
Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door
I highly recommend this book to anyone that is interested in sociopathy or psychopathy. I linked the amazon page above.
“Try to touch the past! Try to deal with the past. It’s not real. It’s just a dream!”
—Ted Bundy quoted in Robert Hare’s Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Thanks for the follow. :) Nice taste in music too.
You’re welcome, it was an easy decision. Great stuff over there.
And thank you!
