Endward23

@Endward23@futurology.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What was her secret?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The face of a Neanderthal from 75,000 years ago has been found by scientists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know, reconstructing faces from bones is more art than science. There is little to be done about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understanding Dyscalculia, Dyslexia’s Numeric Counterpart⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a criticism of the article, no one should be offended by it. Criticism is a tool for archiving the truth.

  The DSM-5 is just a kind of definition. We define Dyscalculia as a specific learning disorder. Thats in itself isn’t a factuall point.

  number-based information because their brain doesn’t process math-related concepts in the same way as those without the disorder

  The link is a 404. Anyway. If we assume that the brain processes math-related concepts somehow (!) different, we have a lots of implication. First, the brain works in a way that it can process math-related concepts different but all other informations normal. Secondly, there are a neurological basis which differentiate between mathematical and other realms of thinking, lets say linguistics. Thirdly, if the add the assumption that this “math-related reasoning” is locelated somewhere in the brain, we could find a “mathematical area” just like the “Wernicke’s area”. Fourthly, you could develop a test for dyscalculia based on biomarkers.

  People with dyscalculia often struggle with transitive inference—a form of deductive reasoning used to derive a relation between items

  But not with spatial tasks? I would expact that transitive inferences could be more linguistic and spatial taks need to be done mathematically.

  They may also have trouble keeping track of time

  This is reminiscent of Kant on arithmetic…

  a child with dyslexia is 100 times more likely to be diagnosed and given support than a child with dyscalculia.

  It’s a shame…

  While acknowledging that being able to label learning disorders is necessary for allocating resources to students, Ansari says it’s important to think about them as a continuum.

  Doesn’t this view (at least in a naive interpretation) implies that the theory of a general factor of intelligence, the g, are false?

  Morsanyi points out that children typically learn to read within a few months, and once they have, that skill is mastered.

  While this is true, the art of understanding a text, got the intention of the author, “read between the lines”, are more rare. Some people got a nearly natural feeling about words and their meaning. Other not.

  The largest study to date, which included 1,303 children, points toward number blindness as the cause.

  Interesting, if this ability is connected to the faculty to make transitiv inferences.

  But over the past five to 10 years, researchers have started to focus on how these numerical systems interact with domain-general cognitive skills, cognitive abilities that are not specific to math, such as executive function and memory.

  If these different branches are highly interconnected, doesn’t that contradict the above statements that there is a specific problem with math?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS | Waterloo News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Strong” Sapir-Whorf might be bullshit, but the weak version is worth checking.

  Really persuasiv sounding. ;-)

  My hypothesis is that the sort of people who’d engage on persuasive bullshit cares less about truth value of the statements, and that’s what giving them a hard time asserting the truth value of what others say.

  Hontestly speaking. This viewpoint isn’t completely false. In some contextes, other aspects are more important than just straight up true value. For instances, some people seems to be used to judge a view not on the merit of it’s reasons, but because of the socially consequences which would arise if the view would hold by a lage mayority. Even if we agree that such points should be irrelevant for a rational discussion, we already know that not all discussions are rational.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS | Waterloo News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope this impressiv and “scientific sounding” headline is more than just another example of the named effect. ;-)

  In a series of studies conducted with over 800 participants from the US and Canada, the researchers examined the relations between participants’ self-reported engagement in both types of BSing and their ratings of how profound, truthful, or accurate they found pseudo-profound and pseudo-scientific statements and fake news headlines.

  Selfreporting. And this 800 participants, where are they from? Students?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frontiers | Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frontiers | Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean that writing by hand is an important mental exercise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is a strategy against it?