[extropy-chat] optimism study

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:

> Brett Paatsch wrote:
> > 
> > The healthy side of the power of positive thinking has been
> recognized 
> > for quite a while. Presumably that is part of the reason that
> placebos 
> > work to some extent. I read somewhere recently that depressed or
> > pessimistic people make for more reliable eye witnesses at crime
> senses.
> 
> Thou shalt not confuse correlation and causation.

Unless, of course, you are correlating a cynical attitude toward
optimism with stress-factors....



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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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