Comments on: Thinking straight http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/18/thinking-straight/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Leah Libresco http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/06/18/thinking-straight/#comment-639 Leah Libresco Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:47:32 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=113#comment-639 'Junk science' and 'bunkum statistics' are a little harsh, Kate. The laguage log post was correct that news media radically misinterpreted the results and that the paper was a little inpenetrable. It did not contest the basic premise, that sexual orientation correlates with brain structures that are determined pre-natally. This is still a big result. Absolutely, most press outlets made it sound like you could diagnose homosexuality by tossing people in an MRI, but this is still a pretty awesome research result. ‘Junk science’ and ‘bunkum statistics’ are a little harsh, Kate. The laguage log post was correct that news media radically misinterpreted the results and that the paper was a little inpenetrable. It did not contest the basic premise, that sexual orientation correlates with brain structures that are determined pre-natally. This is still a big result.

Absolutely, most press outlets made it sound like you could diagnose homosexuality by tossing people in an MRI, but this is still a pretty awesome research result.

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