Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Turns Out Brain Science Studies Are Biased And WEIRD

“When scientists use medical scanners to repeatedly peer at the shapes and activities of the human brain, those brains tend to belong to wealthy and well-educated people. And unless researchers take steps to correct for that bias, what we get is an understanding of the brain that’s incomplete, skewed, and,  well, a little weird.”



Article source here:Arts Journal

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