 Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:58:35 AM
"If English is a foreign language to you, you're pretty good with it."
I have dyslexia. And English is not my first language.
If you argue the point, then you can prove me to be wrong but if your only argument is how bad I wright then you prove yourself an ass.
And you have just proved that you don't read posts before replying to them.
It's impossible to prove you wrong *because you didn't make any point at all*. I answered the question that I thought you probably meant to ask.
The poor quality of your post is very relevant because it completely obscures what you meant.
Also, your number is wrong. The average difference is a *lot* more than 1 billion cells. The average difference is ~10% and there are far more than 10 billion cells in a human brain. The lowest estimate is around 170 billion (weirdly, it's far from clear how many cells are in human brains - estimates vary from ~170 billion to several trillion! |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9533 Posts
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:37:59 AM
>>confusing a tendency with an absolute difference
want do you mean?
When comparing two groups, differences can either be absolute (e.g. adult elephants are bigger than adult sheep) or a tendency to varying extents (e.g. there's some degree of tendency for Norwegians to be slightly taller than Britons).
The two are very different things indeed. Men having more brain cells than women is a tendency, not the absolute difference you stated. |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16874 Posts
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012 8:45:48 AM
@Angilion: The answers to Both your questions are in @dm2754's profile...
Had to double check that for proper grammar...
@dn2754: What that means is: it may be a true difference in numbers (tendency) but it likely is NOT an important difference in performance (outcome).
You seem to know this already, given your reply... |
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 dm2754
Male, 30-39, Western US
2762 Posts
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:01:30 AM
@Angilion
>>confusing a tendency with an absolute difference
want do you mean? |
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dm2754
Male, 30-39, Western US
2762 Posts
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012 6:59:33 AM
The reason men have about 1 billion more brain cells then woman is because men are more likely to get brian damage. Men also have grater lung capacity muscle mass. And I was just trying to make a Borat joke
I have dyslexia. And English is not my first language.
If you argue the point, then you can prove me to be wrong but if your only argument is how bad I wright then you prove yourself an ass.
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 IRockYeah
Male, 30-39, Europe
2140 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:23:05 PM
hmmmmm brains. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9533 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 6:40:49 PM
what about the 1 billion more brian cells men have then woman
If English is a foreign language to you, you're pretty good with it.
If English is your main or only language, you're semiliterate.
In addition to the startling number of linguistic errors you've managed to fit into 12 words, you've got the numbers wrong and you've made the monumental error of confusing a tendency with an absolute difference.
To answer the question that I think you might have been trying to ask:
It doesn't seem to make any difference. Within a wide range, the number of brain cells seems to be unimportant. |
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 som-tam
Male, 18-29, Asia
385 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 4:01:40 PM
the whole left-side/right-side has been disproved by neuroscience. i stopped reading right there. |
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 AlexTron
Male, 18-29, Western US
528 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 1:58:06 PM
som-tam said my thoughts exactly. lol |
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 Fancysucksss
Male, 18-29, Western US
1051 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 1:01:28 PM
I've had the exploding head syndrome. I now have to look this up.. |
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som-tam
Male, 18-29, Asia
385 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:13:06 PM
the whole left-side/right-side has been disproved by neuroscience. i stopped reading right there. |
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Tallon314
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
5 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:55:06 AM
Gonna say nope on the explanation of #2. My understanding is that the left hemisphere creates a narrowed focus, whereas the right tends toward wide ranged observant thought. Granted, I'm no Neuroscientist.
For a better explanation, see this from RSA Animate and Iain McGilchrist on the divided brain. |
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 schuey63
Male, 18-29, Europe
127 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:15:50 AM
I'm disturbed to find out we've been looking at the back of toilet door men and women for all this time and I thought it was the front. |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16874 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:23:35 AM
what about the 1 billion more brian cells men have then woman
SSHHHH! @dm2754 That's not politically correct, even if it is true...
@HedKwab: (nifty name btw!) It's true, it's ALL highly simplified! Especially #15 I thought...
Things going wrong with one's brain are not "rare" when huge percentages of the population have emotional, mental or cognative disorders (even if most are mild...).
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 HalfPintRoo
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
2029 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:03:40 AM
I have had sleep paralysis! Scary poo right there |
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 cobrakiller
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
6843 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:51:55 AM
This is cute. |
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 Hedkwab
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
340 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:54:46 AM
The three parts into which this graph seperates the parts of the brain is highly simplified and #2 is just plain inaccurate. The rest is interesting.. |
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mr-everyman
Male, 70 & Over, Southern US
102 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:48:10 AM
@dm2754 all your "brian" cells just proved that theory a myth.
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 Mikeoxsbiggg
Male, 30-39, Canada
723 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:32:55 AM
Damn sleep paralysis. |
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dm2754
Male, 30-39, Western US
2762 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:22:45 AM
what about the 1 billion more brian cells men have then woman |
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 SirSparticus
Male, 18-29, Europe
45 Posts
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012 7:15:55 AM
Link: Your Brain: An Infographic About It [Pic] [Rate Link] - 15 facts about your brain which your brain may not know. |
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