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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.
"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.
Yeah, everyone always forgets the President is in charge of the budget.
Oh wait, I have that backwards.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Can anyone spot the logical fallacy in the above quoted post from Scott Adams?
No, but I can spot the fallacy in your statement. The first instance of the word "the." ;)
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.
Then let me help you:
Note the confluence of "probably", "unpredictable" and "can change just about anything".
Think about ceilings and floors. Give it a little time, it will come to you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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. Trump just says whatever random shit pops into his head without regard to the random shit that popped into his head last week. Think what you want about each candidates stance on various issues but, Trumps stance on everything is almost literally, "Fuck it, come on lucky 7". People want him to be president because he's got a pulpit with which to shout their stupidity and insecurity.
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?
I gather that you believe America will have more jobs if it just stops trading with other nations. And your state will have more jobs if you just stop trading with the rest of America. And your town will have more jobs if you just stop trading with the rest of the state. In fact, perhaps we should entirely do without commerce. That might work.
I will paraphrase another quote I read here on /. "People are dumb and angry. They don't know why they are angry but, they know that Trump seems to be addressing some form of anger".
Actually, that's close to the mark. The appeal of Donald Trump arises from two factors: (1) he taps into peoples' fears; and (2) he presents himself as the "tough guy" who can eliminate the cause of those fears. In short, he appeals to authoritarians.
People who vote for Trump because they think he'll directly change society for the better are idiots.
Really? Because you go on to say:
Other people (such as myself) will vote for Trump because we know he will be so fucking disastrous that it may cause real and positive changes to our political system.
Considering how intertwined society and political systems are, I'd say you're contradicting yourself.
It's a gamble, to be sure. He could start WW3. As long as he doesn't start WW3, I imagine that his presidency will have a positive legacy on our political system. I just hope we can endure his reign.
So, it sounds like you're an anarchist, and you're willing to gamble with the future of the human species in order to advance your agenda.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
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.)
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.
Congress can't pass a budget that the President won't sign, so it goes both ways.
Our current President has been impossible to work with, so in return Congress has largely refused to work with him, that also goes both ways, but since he is one and they are many, he needed to show leadership.
Which he doesn't have.
Clinton? Congress won't work with her either, so more of the same.
Yeah, everyone always forgets the President is in charge of the budget.
Oh wait, I have that backwards.
And don't forget the two big levers on his desk, marked "Gas Prices" and "Stock Market", which everyone apparently believes he can yank back and forth at will.
The fact is that the president controls almost nothing. He has some influence, but not much. In most cases he deserves neither the blame nor the credit for most of what goes on in the country.
The president has to work very hard to make things better, and making things better is an uncertain outcome, even with the best of intentions.
The sad corollary to that is that it's easy to fuck stuff up and make things worse. Making things worse is blissfully easy. It should be the other way around, but it's not.
Please note that this applies to every president who's ever held the reins of power, from George Washington on up, and it'll apply to every one of them in the future as well.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
The Republicans shut down the government rather than work with him, or did that little fact slip your memory?
When "working with him" means doing what he wants, what exactly would you expect?
Obama walked in and thought he could do what he wanted. Thus you've gotten 8 years of a bunch of nothing, other than the disaster that ACA has been, and even that was only passed due to a one day gap in the Senate and couldn't have been done any other day.
I'm 12,000 miles away and I've recently heard republican senators say that they would not confirm anybody for SC justice that Obama picked, simply because Obama picked them. That is childish obstructionism and a clear dereliction of duty, Trump is the Frankenstein candidate the republicans created with 20yrs of anti-intellectual rhetoric.He has divided the GOP and in so doing has handed the election to the democrats on a silver platter.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Seems to me the Republicans are the ones to always cave.
And you speak as though compromise is a good thing..
Nothing honest about it. He'll lie to your face if it'll improve his polls. He's a showman, and certainly entertaining. His his relationship with the truth is tenuous as best, if not entirely accidental.
This signature is false.
They refuse to hold hearings. Isn't that the minimum due diligence?