Comments on: Bookworms have stronger people skills http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Stephen Kotowych http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-15527 Stephen Kotowych Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:00:35 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/#comment-15527 Hey Ed - Glad I'm not the only fictioneer with such qualms of purpose and conscience. Turns out we were right all along! :) Hey Ed –

Glad I’m not the only fictioneer with such qualms of purpose and conscience. Turns out we were right all along! :)

]]> By: Dave http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-15499 Dave Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:45:42 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/#comment-15499 Chasing aliens!? Like the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26339-2005Apr4.html" rel="nofollow">Minutemen</a>? Chasing aliens!? Like the Minutemen?

]]> By: SMD http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-15497 SMD Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:37:13 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/#comment-15497 Aha! I knew it! By the way, I think there is great use for the ability to chase aliens, even today. Chasing aliens can easily mean trying to find them in that big thing we call the universe. If you have the skills for that sort of thing, then I think it's very useful as we try to find Earth-like planets around other stars... And I sent you an email, Mr. Willett, just so you know (in regards to a review I did of Marseguro with a question). :P Anywho. Aha! I knew it!

By the way, I think there is great use for the ability to chase aliens, even today. Chasing aliens can easily mean trying to find them in that big thing we call the universe. If you have the skills for that sort of thing, then I think it’s very useful as we try to find Earth-like planets around other stars…

And I sent you an email, Mr. Willett, just so you know (in regards to a review I did of Marseguro with a question). :P

Anywho.

]]> By: Dave http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-15496 Dave Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:31:34 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/#comment-15496 (Ugh, another complaint about the Globe reporting: Mick quotes both Oatley and Mar separately, without noting anywhere that they are collaborators who've published jointly on precisely the question that's being discussed. It makes it sound like we're getting two independent opinions on the science, when actually we're just hearing twice from the same research team. As a non-scientist, I'm especially alarmed by sloppy science reporting, because I have to rely on science reporting to learn about science. If the reporters can't get it right for me, I hardly have a chance.) (Ugh, another complaint about the Globe reporting: Mick quotes both Oatley and Mar separately, without noting anywhere that they are collaborators who’ve published jointly on precisely the question that’s being discussed. It makes it sound like we’re getting two independent opinions on the science, when actually we’re just hearing twice from the same research team. As a non-scientist, I’m especially alarmed by sloppy science reporting, because I have to rely on science reporting to learn about science. If the reporters can’t get it right for me, I hardly have a chance.)

]]> By: Dave http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-15495 Dave Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:26:29 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2008/07/10/bookworms-have-stronger-people-skills/#comment-15495 <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826621.700-the-science-of-fiction.html" rel="nofollow">Here's the New Scientist piece</a>. Most of it is behind a subscription wall unfortunately. <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202008_van%20Peer%20Chapter_uncorrected%20proof.pdf" rel="nofollow">This appears to be a PDF of the research paper</a>. At any rate, it's the only on-point publication I could uncover by Oatley and the two collaborators he lists in the NS piece. It appears to be a book chapter, but I'm not sure if the book is out (or what it's called). It's only a brief lit-review, and much of the material it reviews is theoretical and speculative. Still, it's very interesting, and convincing at least as a preliminary matter. (It's embarrassing that the Globe reporter, Hayley Mick, didn't mention the paper in which this research is reported. It's almost as if Mick thinks New Scientist is a peer-reviewed journal, rather than a sketchy pop-sci mag.) Here’s the New Scientist piece. Most of it is behind a subscription wall unfortunately.

This appears to be a PDF of the research paper. At any rate, it’s the only on-point publication I could uncover by Oatley and the two collaborators he lists in the NS piece. It appears to be a book chapter, but I’m not sure if the book is out (or what it’s called). It’s only a brief lit-review, and much of the material it reviews is theoretical and speculative. Still, it’s very interesting, and convincing at least as a preliminary matter.

(It’s embarrassing that the Globe reporter, Hayley Mick, didn’t mention the paper in which this research is reported. It’s almost as if Mick thinks New Scientist is a peer-reviewed journal, rather than a sketchy pop-sci mag.)

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