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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 27 Sep 2017

    A "study" of testosterone levels in Steven Pinker & David Ropeik at a Bruins-Canadiens hockey game. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-risky-is-it-really/201709/whos-in-charge-your-mind-or-your-brain …

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      1. Joachim's Training‏ @TrainingInNYC 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        "Spitting into a vial in public causes strange looks from passersby" - even at Hockey games?

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      1. neurobanter‏ @neurobanter 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        We dumb ourselves down to the further dev of yr computational model!

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      1. scott‏ @liffeying 2 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        love this! Reads like a chapter from Ulysses. (If only Joyce had been an ice hockey fan)

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      1. ParadoX‏ @UnC0mm0nGr0und 30 Sep 2017
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        "Among the best 1% in quality of sociology research papers!" - F New York Times "We join the FNYT's conclusions" - The Onion

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      1. neurobanter‏ @neurobanter 29 Sep 2017
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        Anyone who knows and loves great film knows this is HUGE:

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      1. Angelo Baaco‏ @BaacoA 28 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @joerogan

        This is hilarious... "absolutely no scientifically reliable findings were produced"

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      1. Jerome Paternity Court‏ @propane_mann 27 Sep 2017
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        What kind fake scientist are you? Frenchman and Southie? Not good control subjects. They're nuts. Sorry about had testosterone surge.

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      1. Michele Zappano‏ @ZappanoM 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Hahaha, lol'd @ the "findings"

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      1. Morgan Huff‏ @MorganJHuff 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Cool and unique study! This is my kind of research. :) #digiPRosF17

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      2. Roger Wilson‏ @civicdec 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        ha ha please tell @dropeik that reason conditions brain like training conditions physical capacity & w/o it human populations would be small

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      3. david ropeik‏ @dropeik 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @civicdec @sapinker

        Tnx. My understanding is that we can train ourselves to reason more...but only so much. And in some circumstances, not much at all.

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      4. Roger Wilson‏ @civicdec 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @dropeik @sapinker

        Agreed but so worth the effort. Science the source of so much of what we value. Need more!

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      1. Jorge Rojas‏ @JorgeRojas_86 27 Sep 2017
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        This is what cognitive scientists do for fun? I play videogames.

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      1. self-outstupiderist crumbo‏ @daniel_j_crumbo 27 Sep 2017
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        Love thispic.twitter.com/IhAVwXSlEu

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