16 Oct 07
A fitting article given the lunacy of the posts lately.
Oct 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Michael Kahn
Reuters
LONDON–Gossip is more powerful than truth, a study showed yesterday, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary.
Researchers testing students using a computer game also found gossip played an important role when people make decisions, said Ralf Sommerfeld, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, who led the study.
"We show that gossip has a strong influence ... even when participants have access to the original information as well as gossip about the same information," the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
16 Oct 07
Originally posted by uzlessIt must be true, because it doesn't have that gossipy allure to it. Or does it?
A fitting article given the lunacy of the posts lately.
Oct 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Michael Kahn
Reuters
LONDON–Gossip is more powerful than truth, a study showed yesterday, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary.
Researchers testing students using a computer game also found gossip pl ...[text shortened]... me information," the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wait, I think it doe-nnno, it doesn't. Does it? Is this gossip? 😕
16 Oct 07
Originally posted by stockenI know those are words, and they are english words, but when you put them in that order I have no idea what they mean.
It must be true, because it doesn't have that gossipy allure to it. Or does it?
Wait, I think it doe-nnno, it doesn't. Does it? Is this gossip? 😕
17 Oct 07
Originally posted by uzlessCase in point: Jena 6 reaction leading to Congressional hearings on alleged "noose crisis."
A fitting article given the lunacy of the posts lately.
Oct 16, 2007 04:30 AM
Michael Kahn
Reuters
LONDON–Gossip is more powerful than truth, a study showed yesterday, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary.
Researchers testing students using a computer game also found gossip pl ...[text shortened]... me information," the researchers wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
17 Oct 07
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Originally posted by der schwarze RitterAnd the mistaken belief that Al Gore said he "invented" the internet when in fact he said he helped "create" the internet in a legislative sense through his introduction of Bills.
Case in point: Jena 6 reaction leading to Congressional hearings on alleged "noose crisis."
Amazing how many times I see people say he said he invented it.
😞