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Does the researcher recognise that experimental results may not generalise because of the inherent lack of spontaneity in an experiment? Does the researcher recognise that subjects and researchers can communicate with one another through intimation and vocalisation? Does the researcher recognise that although he or she has stated that assessors were masked, or that a…
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AI responded that the test-retest reliability of AI responses varies “drastically” with the model and with the task. When the same question was asked again, the word “drastically” was not in the response. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” AI has agreed that quotation marks are used excessively in AI.
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Gender is not irreducible. To what degree does any human recognise that environmental changes may favour the other gender?
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‘Stochastic resonance’ and the descending reticular formation.
acoustic startle response, arrectores pilorum, ascending reticular formation, ciliary muscle of accommodation, descending reticular formation, dilator pupillae, inferior oblique, inferior rectus, lateral rectus, levator palpebrae superioris, medial rectus, reticular formation, sphincter pupillae, stapedius, stochastic resonance, superior oblique, superior rectus, tensor tympaniNoise activates the reticular formation, the descending nerves of which bring motor responses to threshold, as seen in the acoustic startle response, and in operatives whose work on a property consigns neighbouring properties to loud radio waves. Noise improves auditory perception by the activation of stapedius muscles and tensor tympani muscles by nerves of the…
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Christmas offers reparative activity for uncomfortable adults.
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The theory of universal grammar is difficult to reconcile with pronominal reversal; if “I” refer to me as “he”, does that not mean that grammar is not universal, that it varies between individuals?
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From moment to moment, the chromosome is more consequential than any of its constituent genes. Secure in her habitat, with partner and children, a mother may be unduly influenced by what she thinks happened to her during her developmental years, such that her partner is cast in the role of avatar: working from home offsets…
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All very platonic. In some situations, men who have green beards compete with other men who have green beards.
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“Stimuli were only audible to the participant (the sound attenuation from the closed headphones coupled with the distance between experimenter and participant and the background noise from wind and other environmental sounds was sufficient to achieve this).” No, they “…were sufficient to achieve this).” See also ‘Double-blind’ trials and Punctuation.
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The convex cornea and the convex crystalline lens of the human eye produce focused, real images which are inverted vertically and horizontally, because light rays cross over at the focal point of the combined cornea and lens. The primate visual field is determined by the frontality of the eyes, by the protuberance of the eyes,…
To be or not to be. 