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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Were not powered statistically to pull out the religious belief per say?
1) What does "per say" mean here?
2) Does "were not powered statistically to pull out the religious belief per say" mean "were not provide power statistically to pick out the religious belief per say"?
3) Does "we went for belief across the board" mean "we launched an all-out attack on belief"?
Background info:
BINGHAM: [Interposing] Something has been published, I've seen it.
HARRIS: Yeah, we published it in The Annals of Neurology last year, and that was intriguing. We
unfortunately were not powered statistically to pull out the religious belief per say, we went for belief across the board, so we had religious and geographical and mathematical and ethical and
many different categories of belief. And what we did was we just put someone in the scanner and
had them read propositions and mark them as true, false or undecidable, from very diverse
categories. And we were able to see in that study that ethical belief, believing that cruelty is wrong, say, or that it's a good thing to be kind of children, was very similar in invoking reward areas in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, to mathematical belief, believing that two plus two equals four versus two plus two equaling five. So there's, which is to say the subtraction between belief and disbelief in both categories was very similar. And so that was tantalizing, and we'll see if a study of religious belief per say will give us a similar result.
2) Does "were not powered statistically to pull out the religious belief per say" mean "were not provide power statistically to pick out the religious belief per say"?
3) Does "we went for belief across the board" mean "we launched an all-out attack on belief"?
Background info:
BINGHAM: [Interposing] Something has been published, I've seen it.
HARRIS: Yeah, we published it in The Annals of Neurology last year, and that was intriguing. We
unfortunately were not powered statistically to pull out the religious belief per say, we went for belief across the board, so we had religious and geographical and mathematical and ethical and
many different categories of belief. And what we did was we just put someone in the scanner and
had them read propositions and mark them as true, false or undecidable, from very diverse
categories. And we were able to see in that study that ethical belief, believing that cruelty is wrong, say, or that it's a good thing to be kind of children, was very similar in invoking reward areas in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, to mathematical belief, believing that two plus two equals four versus two plus two equaling five. So there's, which is to say the subtraction between belief and disbelief in both categories was very similar. And so that was tantalizing, and we'll see if a study of religious belief per say will give us a similar result.
Top answer
1. A mistake for per se . 2.
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- A mistake for per se .
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- They were not able to identify the effects of religious belief alone (as distinct from other kinds of belief).
- "were not provide power statistically" is not grammatical.
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1. A mistake for per se.
2. They were not able to identify the effects of religious belief alone (as distinct from other kinds of belief). "were not provide power statistically" is not grammatical.
3. No, "went for" in this case means something like "decided to work with / investigate". "across the board" means encompassing all types.
2. They were not able to identify the effects of religious belief alone (as distinct from other kinds of belief). "were not provide power statistically" is not grammatical.
3. No, "went for" in this case means something like "decided to work with / investigate". "across the board" means encompassing all types.
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Thanks.
Of course I meant to write "provided power". Typo.
What does "both categories" refer to in "which is to say the subtraction between belief and disbelief in both categories was very similar"?
Of course I meant to write "provided power". Typo.
What does "both categories" refer to in "which is to say the subtraction between belief and disbelief in both categories was very similar"?
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SweetFreedomWhat does "both categories" refer to in "which is to say the subtraction between belief and disbelief in both categories was very similar"?Ethical belief and mathematical belief.
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Cool.
Failed to understand the meaning of "the subtraction" in "the subtraction between belief and disbelief".
What subtracts what?
Failed to understand the meaning of "the subtraction" in "the subtraction between belief and disbelief".
What subtracts what?
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SweetFreedomCool.Failed to understand the meaning of "the subtraction" in "the subtraction between belief and disbelief".What subtracts what?It is not very clear. There seems to be a whole chunk of that sentence missing, after "So there's ...". It may be referring to a comparison of the signal from the scanner in the "belief" and "disbelief" cases.
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