*deep, exausting inhilation of breath*
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
F*cking scientists!!! APA 5 MLA 6 TWA 617 to Denver!!! PICK A CITATION AND STICK WITH IT!
But that's not my point. Doing some research into Pure Alexia (the inability to read as a result of a brain leision.) I've found some studies, which say kind of the same thing.
One says that LBL readers (letter by letter, which is how alexiscs read) can recognize words that they know immediately. (This is called the Saffran effect.)
Ok, good, great. Way to go.
However, another study says that they aren't recognizing any words overtly, but they do have a covert method of recognizing words. To demonstrate this, their most conclusive piece of evidence is the Stroop Test. Which is the one where you try to read the ink and not the word. (for instance GREEN)
Their study showed that the control and the LBL reader scored about the same- with no influential difference between the two. Meaning that even though the LBL reader couldn't read, their reaction time and accuracy were about the same.
Great, grand, way to go!
Here's the problem.
Both studies were done accurately. Both have just as much swinging power as the other. And they both conflict with eachother in every way possible, and yet they say the same thing.
So, I say to you;
F*CK you scientists!! F*CK you in you're ear! You have 80 some odd different citation styles. You all say that YOUR way is the way to be, and that its better than every other way. You all say different things, and all mean the same thing, but no one agrees with ANYONE!!
Wasn't a scientists who came up with the idea of the statistic? A small, easily recognizable piece of factual information, that can be used to quickly classify and order large groups of information and people into small, manageable pieces of information?
Isn't it scientists who can take one statistic, and 4 different scientists can get four different conclusions from it?
Are not scientists, in fact, the antichrist? Think about it- they fit perfectly.
I think Eric Cartman said it best when he said "Screw you guys, I'm going home."
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