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[hobglobin]

casandra, on 05 November 2010 - 02:48 PM, said:

hobglobin, on 05 November 2010 - 02:15 PM, said:

casandra, on 05 November 2010 - 02:08 PM, said:

ppffttt.....right now, the drunk geek.......and a cat-hating geek...

and you the always busy geek....and I like cats...

oh sure...but more importantly, do they like you? ...

yes, I've always a little sushi for them  

[casandra]

for the snow-challenged people out there (you know who you are ), check THIS out...

Edited by casandra, 18 December 2010 - 01:07 PM.

[hobglobin]

A new and in development from Google:

The Body Browser.
Unfortunately you need a browser supporting WebGl (new Chrome beta or Firefox 4beta), i.e. it's in development. I've no idea how good this is....

Their advert text:
"Body Browser is a detailed 3D model of the human body. You can peel back anatomical layers, zoom in, click to identify anatomy, or search for muscles, organs, bones and more. You can also share the exact scene you are viewing by copying and pasting the URL."

Edited by hobglobin, 21 December 2010 - 01:20 PM.

[hobglobin]

Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds...a Mexican dream?  

Read this website

[casandra]

These are fresh and just came out of the oven… :
The effect of women tears and music on all kinds of arousal…….and btw, check out the Sample of Chills-Inducing Musical Excerpts (in supporting documents)….no Cream and Slayer there…...

[hobglobin]

They used the local chamber orchestra members as participants, eh? IMO not a very random sample of people   . Anyway no Bach too, but Pink Floyd.  

[toejam]

hobglobin, on 04 January 2011 - 12:56 PM, said:

Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds...a Mexican dream?  

Read this website

so this is what might have given me stomach pain after drinking tequila


casey lynch, for slayer the sampling was biased

Edited by toejam, 10 January 2011 - 02:41 PM.

[casandra]

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....

Edited by casandra, 10 January 2011 - 08:20 PM.

[Adrian K]

wow, this is a good one casey.

[Adrian K]

-repost- removed

Edited by adrian kohsf, 10 January 2011 - 08:33 PM.

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 10 January 2011 - 08:18 PM, said:

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....

Though they wrote "There were no restrictions to the genre of music that could be provided. This was done to increase the ecological validity of our findings and to ensure that any observed effects were not due to a specific genre of music. We obtained music from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno, and tango ".
Anyway if the participants are from a classical music subculture, it's biased surely    . And that strange band, I guess it's gebirgsz's favourite band...

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 11 January 2011 - 08:34 AM, said:

casandra, on 10 January 2011 - 08:18 PM, said:

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....

Though they wrote "There were no restrictions to the genre of music that could be provided. This was done to increase the ecological validity of our findings and to ensure that any observed effects were not due to a specific genre of music. We obtained music from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno, and tango ".
Anyway if the participants are from a classical music subculture, it's biased surely    . And that strange band, I guess it's gebirgsz's favourite band...

but the recruitment was thru ads (not an active aggressive one) and I don't think that only the classical music listeners would respond (or perhaps we have better musical taste here in Montreal....)...and it's more like Ila's music I think...and I like it too.......

Edited by casandra, 11 January 2011 - 09:18 AM.

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 11 January 2011 - 09:15 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 11 January 2011 - 08:34 AM, said:

casandra, on 10 January 2011 - 08:18 PM, said:

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....

Though they wrote "There were no restrictions to the genre of music that could be provided. This was done to increase the ecological validity of our findings and to ensure that any observed effects were not due to a specific genre of music. We obtained music from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno, and tango ".
Anyway if the participants are from a classical music subculture, it's biased surely    . And that strange band, I guess it's gebirgsz's favourite band...

but the recruitment was thru ads (not an active one) and I don't think that only the classical music listeners would respond (or perhaps we have better musical taste here in Montreal....)...and more like Ila's music I think...and I like it too.......

I found it strange, and won't hear it voluntarily or for pleasure...   (though I heard a different version, the track from above is not allowed here)
I guess then they're students, and as they knew that the professor (they're later supervised and examined by him) is a classic music fan, most chose a classic track, to avoid shocking the professor. Very bad for the results of course...

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 11 January 2011 - 09:20 AM, said:

casandra, on 11 January 2011 - 09:15 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 11 January 2011 - 08:34 AM, said:

casandra, on 10 January 2011 - 08:18 PM, said:

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....

Though they wrote "There were no restrictions to the genre of music that could be provided. This was done to increase the ecological validity of our findings and to ensure that any observed effects were not due to a specific genre of music. We obtained music from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno, and tango ".
Anyway if the participants are from a classical music subculture, it's biased surely    . And that strange band, I guess it's gebirgsz's favourite band...

but the recruitment was thru ads (not an active one) and I don't think that only the classical music listeners would respond (or perhaps we have better musical taste here in Montreal....)...and more like Ila's music I think...and I like it too.......

I found it strange, and won't hear it voluntarily or for pleasure...   (though I heard a different version, the track from above is not allowed here)
I guess then they're students, and as they knew that the professor (they're later supervised and examined by him) is a classic music fan, most chose a classic track, to avoid shocking the professor. Very bad for the results of course...

students? unless they're from the conservatoire of music, I doubt that their preferred tracks would be classical music...and which professors were they impressing with their musical selections? This study was done I think mainly at the neurological institute......

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 11 January 2011 - 09:32 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 11 January 2011 - 09:20 AM, said:

casandra, on 11 January 2011 - 09:15 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 11 January 2011 - 08:34 AM, said:

casandra, on 10 January 2011 - 08:18 PM, said:

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....

Though they wrote "There were no restrictions to the genre of music that could be provided. This was done to increase the ecological validity of our findings and to ensure that any observed effects were not due to a specific genre of music. We obtained music from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno, and tango ".
Anyway if the participants are from a classical music subculture, it's biased surely    . And that strange band, I guess it's gebirgsz's favourite band...

but the recruitment was thru ads (not an active one) and I don't think that only the classical music listeners would respond (or perhaps we have better musical taste here in Montreal....)...and more like Ila's music I think...and I like it too.......

I found it strange, and won't hear it voluntarily or for pleasure...   (though I heard a different version, the track from above is not allowed here)
I guess then they're students, and as they knew that the professor (they're later supervised and examined by him) is a classic music fan, most chose a classic track, to avoid shocking the professor. Very bad for the results of course...

students? unless they're from the conservatoire of music, I doubt that their preferred tracks would be classical music...and which professors were they impressing with their musical selections? This study was done I think mainly at the neurological institute......

Yes I think the same (students rarely hear this stuff), an indication that they pretended to like classical stuff as the PI of the study (a professor) is their supervisor and examiner (and loves classic stuff)...if they'd have chosen their real favourite music (e.g. country), the PI would have had biased against them later to be rednecks...

Edited by hobglobin, 11 January 2011 - 09:40 AM.