Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by endgame on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:37PM
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The smug confidence when the outlets assert these things is one of the most galling parts:
> Babies and young children study faces, so you may worry that having masked caregivers would harm children’s language development. There are no studies to support this concern.
There are "no studies" because you can't do studies like that on humans! I guess absence of evidence = evidence of absence now. What about on monkeys?
> The face-deprived monkeys and control monkeys were scanned by fMRI when they were six months old to measure their neural responses to faces and other visual stimuli.
> Control monkeys had face patches by the time they were six months old; the face-deprived monkeys did not. Patches for other visual categories that both sets of monkeys saw equally, such as hands and bodies, were roughly equivalent between the two groups.
> Babies and young children study faces, so you may worry that having masked caregivers would harm children’s language development. There are no studies to support this concern.
https://twitter.com/AmerAcadPeds/status/1425857041457942542
There are "no studies" because you can't do studies like that on humans! I guess absence of evidence = evidence of absence now. What about on monkeys?
> The face-deprived monkeys and control monkeys were scanned by fMRI when they were six months old to measure their neural responses to faces and other visual stimuli.
> Control monkeys had face patches by the time they were six months old; the face-deprived monkeys did not. Patches for other visual categories that both sets of monkeys saw equally, such as hands and bodies, were roughly equivalent between the two groups.
https://massivesci.com/articles/facial-recognition-patches-b...