Public Opinion Survey
I work for a University doing brain imaging research, but my salary is paid by an organisation called Sinapse. As MRI is now being increasingly used, rightly or wrongly, in areas like law and marketing, they want to find out what the general public (i.e. people not involved in imaging) think about what is going on. As people on here usually aren't short of an opinion on most things I thought some of you might be interested.
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19 Oatcake gamier than ocelot and a welcome break from swan, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:25,
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what part of law is MRI used in?
Is the Thought Police a reality now?
Edit: on page 3 I think the option should read "People believing they know what you think" rather than "People knowing what you think". Unless you're certain that scans can tell people what you think (which is different to how you feel).
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:43,
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It's already being used as a form of lie-detection in some places, the US and India are 2 that I know of. Some researchers have claimed to be able to distinguish between real and 'fake' memories. I'm not going to get drawn on the debate as it's the field I work in. The point of the survey is to see what the general public think because, as you rightly say, there is more than a hint of Thought Police about some of the proposals that are being aired at the moment.
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19 Oatcake gamier than ocelot and a welcome break from swan, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:59,
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There you go.
Was very tempted to go for the "tin-foil hat" approach (gov'mint will implant thoughts in my head etc etc) but was honest instead.
*regrets*
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DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:47,
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I was disapointed by not getting a brain scan once
I had just been diagnosed with ADHD and they asked me if I would have a scan so my brain could be added to a study.
Slightly worried the doctor with my positive yay! and then I never heard anything about it again :(
Done survey. Some questions tempted me to be silly (what worries you about brain scans?: They'll give me superpowers without telling me)
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 14:57,
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I don't know why your doctor was slightly worried. A lot of our psychology students are so excited at getting their brains scanned they cant stay still long enough for us to actually do it.
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19 Oatcake gamier than ocelot and a welcome break from swan, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 15:08,
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My doctor told me that mine was the most enthusiastic answer she had recieved
Maybe I shouldn't of held her hands and jumped up and down and the couch.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 15:22,
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I know someone at the Mawdsley
who's job is to study brain imaging and links to mental health disorders. Sounds like extremely complicated stuff. Survey done.
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Can I do the survey?
I'm a final year psychology phd student, so I've been exposed to a lot of imaging information but it doesn't fall into my area of research. Do I still count as the public for this?
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Anyone can do the survey. Sinapse have sent it round all their staff and asked us to post it to as many places as we like. If they didn't send it to you then you count as the public.
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19 Oatcake gamier than ocelot and a welcome break from swan, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 15:17,
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Done then :)
My brain's been on T.V. There wasn't a box for me to say that though :(
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Done
I work for a legal* publisher (previously worked for MORI* too, what strange intersection) and in our library at the publishers, there's an hilarious 'Professional’ title you may like to glance at: Buy-ology (sic) Lindstrum, Martin. I read it back in November after curiosity got the better of me whilst looking for Civil Procedure Rules.
It's worth a glance for some hilaaaarious background. The self-aggrandising author is basically a marketing twonk (see Bill Hicks) who thinks MRI is some kind of panacea or a means of substantiating his miserable work.
P.S. I may have been misled by Q3. P4. As I only clicked one radio button seeing them as potentially mutually exclusive options. Is that right or wrong of me?
*Not an expert in either field, just stating the facts.
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Ha ha ha. I have seen that book, but never read it. Don't think I'm missing too much. MRI is like any field of science. There's loads of really good stuff going on in both clinical and resarch fields, but there are mega-canards of quackery going on as well. That book probably rates in the deci-canard range.
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19 Oatcake gamier than ocelot and a welcome break from swan, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 15:20,
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Not teaching you to suck eggs at all
Deci-canard. Nice one. Quite right you're not missing much, I just thought I’d mention as even though it's not my field, it made me shudder deeply.
If it wasn't there on the shelf to grab at work I wouldn't have bothered. The 'bibliography' is just pitiful, it's laid out prosaically to make pad it out. Jesus! That's sixth form nonsense.
Is it really too much by way of eye damage to knowingly read such a thing ironically? Am I too perverse in that sense?
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Someone with OCD did it for you there.
And with sod all prior knowledge I'm now obsessed with brain scans. Argh! thought police!
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Christian's Bolt and Ski, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 16:55,
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