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Researcher Measures Brain Reactions To Donald Trump (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Sam Barnett "has been strapping electrode caps on focus group participants and showing them primary season debates," reports CNN, and there's one clear conclusion. "Seeing Trumps face, hearing Trump's voice, lights up the brain." His data captured big surges in neural activity for hot-button topics like immigration, and revealed that while Marco Rubio actually triggered slightly more brain activity among men, Trump clearly produced the highest reactions among women and overall. "The focus group participants might have been excited by Trump. Or they might have been repulsed," reports CNN. "But one thing was for sure: they weren't bored." Barnett has also used electroencephalography (or EEG) to study advertising, and in the future he hopes to also apply it to other complex forms of brain stimulation like movies and even hedge-fund investing.
Not to see if Trump is lying, that's a given :-), but if you are
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Tired of this shit. Human beings have the capacity to flat out ignore their 'brain impulses'. We are not binary creatures with on/off switches. So fucking stupid. :/ If this is the best young science has it should definitely consider another line of work.
That's not a good thing.
This is your brain on Trump.
I'm surprised there wasn't more information about your brain on Cruz. Or maybe it scared the researchers a little too much.
So, what the research is saying, is that Trump provides significant amount of mental stimulation, which makes us smarter.
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It's politically neutral - just the brain reacting to the orange light.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"The focus group participants might have been excited by Trump. Or they might have been repulsed,"
My guess is both. Trump brings out the "Watch the world burn" in all of us. Morbid curiosity is a very strong motivator.
All those anti trump people have yet to offer one single alternative to trump.
'He's a nazi we hate him!'
Ok. what's you're suggestion?
'He's a nazi and we hate him!'
You're really not helping...
Bottom line is... Clinton is one evil bitch for sale to the highest bidder. Sanders doesn't stand a chance anymore. And cruz is a grade A jesus freak
So unless you want 4/8 more years of the same ol shit. Trump is it. And he's going to win.
Reality tv? fuck that we have reality politics! gonna be entertaining.
All this clown is measuring is EMG artifact from the muscle of facial expression. Yes those muscles tense and generate relatively high voltage EMG signals in the same frequency range as low voltage cognitive EEG. More social science bullshit attempting to masquerade as meaningful science
They also determined that exposure to trum causes the same reactions in nematodes.
Therefore it is easy to extrapolate Trump supporters are on evolutionary and intellectual scale as common nematodes.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Look around you, the world already burns. Meanwhile the Democratic answer to the fire is to toss another old log on and let it burn as it has.
The Republicans mostly hate Trump because they too don't mind the fire as it is, worming those rich enough to stay outside of it. Trump however is like tossing a mysterious pressurized can into the fire, which may well douse the fire but at least it will make sure everyone feels the burn.
The Democrats hate Sanders for the same reason but they have him on a much tighter leash with zero chance to displace Clinton as the candidate, no matter how many wish it were so.
It's not curiosity that drives Trump and Sanders numbers; it is a survival instinct. There are lots of people who would vote for either even though that would seem to make no sense if all you can see is through the hoary old bifocals of "Republican" or "Democrat".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That would explain a lot.
Instead of reporting actual news, networks like CNN (and I guess Slashdot) report content-free bullshit like this all the time. Someone must have been in danger of actually thinking about how government works, and this story came just in time to prevent that. Thinking averted, personal biases confirmed based on nothing, crisis averted just in time, remember to wash your clothes in Tide or whatever the hell CNN is selling you today.
Editors of slashdot, I know you've deleting posts that you don't approve of, so I expect this one to disappear too.
You're FIRED!
Tell me with a straight face you want even four years with this robot at the helm of the country. You do know the Clinton foundation makes money from arms dealers too right? Why do you think she started a needless war in Libya? At least Bush had some motive of saving someone, not just pure profit.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
specifically of the brain reactions of people willing to have their brains hooked up to science, and be subjected to stimulus.
these are the brain scans of JUNKIES.
Clinton is exactly what we don't need. Bush and Obama are thee worst presidents our country has ever had, and Clinton would likely surpass them both.
Sanders is well intended, but his policies cannot be implemented because we are fucking broke.
We need someone to run this country like a business - shake things up, decimate costs, allow heads to roll, close the loopholes, and profit where we can.
I'm fully in support of Trump. I'm not on board with everything he says (the wall...), but he's clearly different from the rest of the herd in a way this country so desperately needs.
Wow, he really brings out a lot of feelings in people. Maybe his rallies should be supported by Midol to make sure people don't end up hurting themselves with their little rage fits.
They're sure trying hard as hell trying to figure out how to though.
I conduct research in a lab that uses EEG to measure a very different kind of processing, so it's possible I'm unaware of the relevant background literature (if indeed there is any), but the most charitable thing I can say is that it is impossible to draw any conclusions at all from the results as they are reported here.
Barnett talks about "neural engagement", but this is not a technical term. Googling around led to his patent on measuring so-called engagement. The relevant part is as follows:
“For example, if a movie was presented to a group of people, the measure of engagement could show the level of engagement the group (or a subset of the group) displayed in response to different scenes in the movie; the measure of engagement could also show how engaging the movie was overall. The method 100 preferably performs cross-brain correlations of neural data, calculated across pairs (a measure of neural similarity), as input for the measure of engagement. The method 100 additionally may function to provide a measure of engagement across small and precise time ranges. Understanding that one characteristic of engaging content is its ability to generate similar neural responses in different individuals, this preferably enables the method 100 to operate without the need to specify a model for the neural processes of engagement.”
So as far as I can tell, the fact that Trump generated higher levels of engagement means the EEG responses he elicited in viewers were more correlated with each other than were the EEG responses elicited by other candidates. This could potentially be interesting, but not without a process model explaining why. Even taking this associative, non-experimental method at face value, here's a plausible hypothesis that would render this result totally uninteresting: Everyone has seen and heard Donald Trump a lot. The same cannot be said for, say, John Kasich. It seems reasonable to me that frequent stimuli would be more likely to elicit common responses.
Maybe this hypothesis is correct; maybe it's not. The point is that without doing the hard work of showing they understand what their analytic technique measures, the results are totally uninterpretable. You can't even say that "Viewers weren't bored" without knowing what the correlations between the EEG responses of bored people would generate!
tl;dr: A poorly-designed and as-yet unpublished EEG study leads to an uninterpretable result that generated news coverage because readers like it when their latent beliefs are covered with a veneer of scientific acceptability.
(Professional quibble with the write-up: The term "lights up the brain" is neuroscientific slang used exclusively with methods like fMRI that tell you which regions of the brain are active. I know no neuroscientist who would say the brain is "lit up" based on an EEG reading.)
I don't know if it's fair to compare Trump and Sanders. Sanders has a pretty solid, decades old voting record that gives a pretty clear picture of where he stands.
Sanders voted to increase H1B visas at the last round of voting.
How can you support Sanders when he doesn't care whether you (and in the future, your children) have jobs?
This all assumes increased debt is the worst thing which could happen to the economy. It isn't, not by a long shot.
The United States has a net worth of about $124 trillion in 2014 (source). The total federal deficit is about $19 trillion and the federal deficit is $500 billion. But the total US net worth grows by far more than $500 billion per year, so it is very misleading to say the deficit is a large problem. For instance, the total net worth of US households and non-profits grew by $10 trillion in 2014 alone. If I am going $5000 in debt each year, but my total net worth is growing by $10,000 each year, I am still in a pretty good position.
The risk of damaging the economy with drastic measures is far more dangerous than going a few trillion more in debt. Current federal debt levels are really not that bad when put into perspective, although understandably it is very hard for people to put $500 billion in perspective. But to make it easier, the US is a household with a $248,000 house with $38,000 left on their mortgage, and a family budget losing about $100 per month. That is not a dire situation.
If what you're saying is true, we could eliminate the federal income tax *entirely* and simply go into debt each year for the federal budget.
That's what you're saying, yes? If the federal budget is $3.5 trillion, and we're increasing our national value by $10 trillion a year, then we're still coming out ahead, right?
This would be even better than your analogy of going into debt by $5K while increasing in value by $10K each year.
Why don't we do that then?
Howcome we don't simply eliminate income taxes(*)?
(A rhetorical question to illustrate just how ridiculous your explanation is. It doesn't hold up when taken to its logical conclusion.)
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Another excerpt from Scott Adams' blog
According to social media, and the mainstream media as well, Trump might be the next Hitler because he does things Hitler would have done. For example:
Trump is charismatic and appeals to our prejudices.
Trump approves of violence against people he thinks deserve it.
Trump blames “others” for the nation’s problems.
Trump has an authoritarian vibe.
All that is true. But it would be equally easy to build a list of why Trump is definitely NOT like Hitler. For example:
Trump is anti-war. Hitler, not so much.
Trump asks us to favor legal citizens over non-citizens. He makes no mention of race. Hitler killed his own citizens and mostly cared about race.
Trump wants citizens to be heavily armed to protect themselves against bad people, including dictators. Hitler didn’t want to arm his potential enemies.
Trump wants greater freedom of speech that would include politically incorrect topics. Hitler wasn’t so big on free speech for others.
Trump assures us his genitalia have “no problem.” Hitler had one testicle.
I really like reading Scott Adams' blog. Unlike most analysis on the planet, he seems to address the issues in a logical, well-reasoned fashion.
and quite probably get us all killed in a nuclear war within 2 years?
You mean of course the nuclear war with Iran that Obama has personally made sure will occur.
Whoever the next president is has nothing to do with the fact America and/or Europe will be hit with nuclear weapons in the next few years.
Hell I'd vote for C'thu'lu over Trump.
So sad to see a handful of otherwise intelligent people so utterly fail to understand what Trump is about and in so doing basically have the opposite impact of trying to stop him they intend.
The funny thing is that you and your ideological looney pals facilitate his rise with stupid proclamations like that, because the people that hate Trump just sound insane and make Trump sound quite reasonable by comparison - because there is nothing so over the top Trump can say that is not beat by an order of magnitude from his haters, who ignore what Trump has actually done in life.
I'm not evener Trump - but I see that the people against Trump are utterly insane and can't seem to understand what he's saying or what he wants to do.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
CNN isn't worth your time. All they talk about is garbage like this and who said the most ridiculous thing today. CNN is willing and able to bait and troll the public with nonsensical questions like did Trump sieg heil before cutting to commercial.
Is Anderson cooper a space alien? Is Jake Taper a Russian spy? Does Wolf Blitzer rape goats? All this and more after these messages.
Apparently they can't be bothered to do any serious investigative journalism on any of the candidates running for office, provide any context or insights into political issues or even bother to explore candidates positions. It is 24x7 talking points and low information bullshit spewed from CNN's cast of lazy idiots.
An electrode equipped cap connected to an EEG, to capture my yelling at the TV. Scientifically.
People want him to be president because he's got a pulpit with which to shout their stupidity and insecurity.
We know, everyone that supports trump is an ignorant bigot right? Which is why where he wins he wins with minorities, educated, and yes women. I don't agree with Trump on just about everything, but I certainly see the appeal and why people _are_ supporting him. No, it's not what you or the media claims about hate speech and bigotry. That is the facade people are trying to paint but lets ask a question. Who do you think is more racist, Trump or Clinton? Yeah, that's what I thought, there is no way you can fairly separate them.
So what is the appeal of Trump? As GP said it is the same as Sanders. People are tired of the career politician who promises change, bullshit their way into office, get support and cash from the wealthiest of the wealthy, and once they get their office they maintain the status quo. The rich get richer and everyone else gets screwed.
Trump's sincerity is certainly a fair question, but how is that different than anyone else? I guess some we know are simply dishonest, but others have problems of their own. Hillary is dishonest, gets us another term of Obama with even less accountability and transparency than we currently have, and it really can not get much lower. Sanders may be honest but has the dreams of Utopia and no way of paying for it, so nothing will happen. Cruz is extremely dishonest and changes his stance and position more than you and I change socks and underwear. Kasich may be the only person who does not look dirty, but to be fair I have simply never investigated him since he has not gone very high in polls.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
EEG indistinguishable from brain death.
Seastead this.
Because that wall might be big & beautiful but if they're tunneling the drugs under it our crime rate won't fall as much as it could.
Anything is better than Nazism, I mean, democratic socialism.
Look no further than Sweden and other socialist countries and their collapsing economies...
Didn't Trump fawn enough to you at AIPAC last week? Why is this even in Slashdot? Because they're TRYING TO TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK.
No matter if its Trump or Sanders. People seem to want something other than same old promises and bad politics. To me Trump is taken too seriously by the left in what he says. His words are taken far to seriously rather than his supporters who just believe in the spirit of those words. You most definitely have many American's fed up with politically correct people. If the left want to blame anyone for Trump let it be Obama and company who not only set the stage for pent up anger against establishment. But also a feeling that America has lost its way as a great nation. The constant apologies Obama makes for America weighs on many Americans.
Clinton with all her might, can't muster any real success stories about her political career. Why do we vote for someone who can't even manage sensitive email correctly? Far as I am concerned, Hillary Clinton is as incompetent as anybody to be President. How we pick Presidents is rather embarrassing, and its why we are so dissatisfied with our political system. I don't think Trump would get all he wants as President anymore than Sanders. But they both have strong beliefs that don't pretend to just stroke some establishment line in order to get votes. Much more refreshing than same old politics from the rest.
Didn't we learn our lesson last cycle? Or the two before that?
Look, there's only three factions that read this site. Socialists, Libertarians, and people that believe their pets talk to them telepathically.
Why bother discussing anything political here?
This never ends well.
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... why didn't they monitor the gag reflex?
Most of the MSM and political parties blatantly lie. People know it's a lie that the economic news and propaganda is a lie because it is at obvious odds with what most people see in daily life. People know the War on Terror is a lie because there are other sources of news such as the internet that show that news and propaganda is at obvious odds with directly observable or alternatively reported reality. Same with politics. Same with infrastructure. Same with most other things. This is why Hilary has the "honesty gap" she has. As so Neocon and republicans generally. And Washington DC and Wall Street as well - they live in their own little bubble of reality thinking they can "create reality" but they are either lying or mentally ill saying this.
All this causes a cognitive dissonance that turns people off to all current MSM and all current mainstream politicians and parties. They lie and they don't even try to cover it up anyone!!
Now what Trump and Sanders bring to the table is alignment. They are the first to acknowledge what everyone already knows to be true from direct experience and everyone thinks are the real problems. And thus the cognitive dissonance is nullified and guess what that looks like on "brain scans": higher, self-reenforcing brain electrical activity. It's is instead: cognitive RESONANCE.
I'm not saying say that either Trump or Sanders "have the answers" but certainly it's clear than no one else does or will tell the truth to reality. If there is a chance to "fix" America, it will ONLY come from telling the truth about its problems. Whether solutions can be found is another question but you must start with truth. And this is what is resonating about Trump AND Sanders, and conversely what is dissonant about everyone else.
Hypnotoad!
This fall, he will face-off against Mom
Bernie is just a deceit by the party to fool the young, idealistic, energetic base. He has no actual chance because the Democrats have "Superdelegates" who are committed to Hillary and out-vote the primary voters. Superdelegates allow the Democrats to quietly do to Bernie, with a veneer of legitimacy, what the GOP loudly and publicly is trying to find a way to do to Trump without any PR fig leaf: STEAL it from the person clearly preferred bu a big part of the base of the party.
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/03/28/the-hate-speech-study-say_n_9556836.html
Casteism
If the Libtards get their way, they will yet again re-define 'Mental illness'. They will say anybody that supports Trump is mentally ill and so is not allowed to own guns.
Then they will re-define a 'Felony' as being anything they don't like.
And finally, they will lump it into their latest definition of 'Terrorism' to include any action contrary to THEIR beliefs.
Possibly politically neutral, yet it does speak to an alarming notion: there are voting adults that are unable to accurately interpret that reaction in their brains; often mistaking it for a positive thing. Drug addicts have similar experiences with dope; they think it is good for them. And, even though many drug addicts have an awareness that it is not good, they still continue to participate. And Trump keeps getting votes!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
The Post is exactly on topic you censors.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
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