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Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia
An anonymous reader writes "Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but Australian scientists are using it to diagnose dementia, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of New South Wales, found that patients under the age of 65 suffering from frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the second most common form of dementia, cannot detect when someone is being sarcastic."
Studies also found that old people who do not have dementia are likely to whack you with their canes for sassing them.
Doctor: "Oh, yeaaaa, you're normal"
Patient: "Why you little whippernapper! *WHACK* *WHACK*"
Doctor: "No! Ow! No! It was a medical test!
Patient: "I lived through 15 wars and 5 depressions, and I'm not going to let some damn young quack backtalk me in the name of science!" *WHACK* *WHACK*
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
<sarcasm>Really?</sarcasm>
Genesis 1:32 And God typed
...90% of the internet is demented.
I traded all my mod points for these magic beans.
What a great idea.
If you're wondering if you've got dementia, and you thought this comment was sarcastic, then you have because it wasn't.
If you're not wondering if you've got dementia, then you have too because it totally was sarcastic.
Or maybe it's me who has dementia. I don't know if I'm being sarcastic. Oh dear.
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Doctors Recommend Reading Slashdot to Diagnose Dementia.
I have left slashdot and am now on Soylent News. FUCK YOU DICE.
Sarcasm has no place on the internet. period.
Hi, I Boris. Hear fix bear, yes?
Your smiley has a goatee.
...parody is being used to detect Alzheimer's disease, and satire to detect lupus.
As an octogenarian who has seen the negative effects of censorship across various media over many decades, I find your desire to absolutely deny peoples' right to express themselves in a particular way to be not only naive, but also -- oooh, look at the bird feeder, that hummingbird is back!!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
I have a friend who said once that you can give sexual meaning to any statement as long as you end it with "if you know what I mean".
Ironically, the same results can be achieved by ending statements with 'would you have sex with me.'
That's a wicked good observation.
Unfortunately it can also be a problem in real-life, generally when I'm being sarcastic I sound and act exactly as if I wasn't, combine this with my quirky personalty and it gets interesting.
(while in a job interview)
Interviewer: so what kind of hobbies do you have, apart from coding?
Me: Well, rock climbing, some music production, necrophelia and subtle dark humor.
I wanted to convey that he's just trying to make small-talk to cover up the fact that he's already decided they weren't going to employ me, instead his face twitched for a second and his mouth opened and you could see his brain clicking away trying to digest what I'd just said.
Um yah, getting back ontopic you can be sarcastic on the internet if people know you well, we all understand subtle humour & emotions while reading what other people write, but for complete strangers that's pretty much impossible.
I bet you're fun at parties.
Ha! Dementia detected.
Or drool...
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
Thanks!
Everybody knows that sarcasm contains no iron.
It does if it's ferocious enough.
This guy's the limit!
Irony. The opposite of wrinkly.