Hi there,
I've been following the discussions here frequently. Glad to have
found
them. Much of them still too difficult for me to follow (though
I'm slowly
catching up). This one needed no further explanation...
1. Happy birthday to Mike Cole!
2. I'm bound to do some experimenting this weekend ;-)
thanks for sharing!
Martin,
Austria
2012/4/13 mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
Just think what an equal amount of vodka could accomplish!
:-)
Mike
On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu>
wrote:
As AERA begins, and as we wish Mike Cole a happy birthday today, I
think
it's appropriate to acknowledge that the sort of categorizing
tasks that
Luria used in Uzbekistan, and that Mike and Sylvia Scribner
adapted in
Liberia, are still being used to study the recesses of the human
mind.
For
your consideration:
Study: Beer fuels male creativity
10:57 am April 12, 2012, by George Mathis
It's long been known that beer makes women prettier, but a new
study
concludes beer also makes men more creative.
The New York Daily News reports<
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/beer-men-smarter-
study-article-1.1059752?localLinksEnabled=false
the experiment, like most really good ones, was conducted in a
bar. The
article does not say who paid for the study, but I'm thinking it
was a
group of men or a beer company.
"We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working
memory
tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks,"
psychologist Jennifer Wiley, who presumably was not drinking,
says in the
article, which I have forwarded to my wife.
Wiley parrots what any man who has had to come up with an excuse
for
running late while sitting on a bar stool will tell you:
"Sometimes the
really creative stuff comes out when you're [drinking]."
For the experiment, conducted by University of Illinois
researchers, a
group of 40 men was given three words and asked to provide a
fourth word
that fits a pattern. For example, "marine mammal," "Heidi Klum,"
"divorce"
could be followed by "Seal."
Half the men remained dimwittingly sober, while the other half was
given
two pints (hopefully of a microbrew) and likely began flirting with
waitresses and/or researchers.
The men who drank solved 40% more of the problems than their sober
counterparts. Also, the drinkers finished their problems in 12
seconds
while it took the non-drinkers 15.5 seconds, the Daily News reports.
Women did not participate in the study, perhaps because men
can't think
straight around such delightful creatures, according to an
earlier study<
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/study-finds-men-
suffer-mental-decline-thinking-women-article-1.1038382
.
The Daily News article also cites the literary genius of famed
drinkers
Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski, but not George Mathis.
Alas, it was almost the perfect scientific study.
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