The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

resistant writes "As the evocative title from Wired magazine implies, Kevin Dunbar of the University of Toronto has taken an in-depth and fascinating look at scientific error, the scientists who cope with it, and sometimes transcend it to find new lines of inquiry. From the article: 'Dunbar came away from his in vivo studies with an unsettling insight: Science is a deeply frustrating pursuit. Although the researchers were mostly using established techniques, more than 50 percent of their data was unexpected. (In some labs, the figure exceeded 75 percent.) "The scientists had these elaborate theories about what was supposed to happen," Dunbar says. "But the results kept contradicting their theories. It wasn't uncommon for someone to spend a month on a project and then just discard all their data because the data didn't make sense."'"

Comments

Racism and science.

[tjstork]

So, when reality is racist, you change it?

I thought World War II empirically proved that the master race is not all its cracked up to be. American mutts and Soviet subhumans kicked the living shit out of the master aryan race. The whole concept of NAZI ideology was that they were the master race, they were not only deserving of victory, but destined, thus, by the most racist rules there are, they proved themselves inferior.

PS. Polish women are the hottest of all European women.