> Its been proven time and again that these meaningless level rewards are pointless in studies and often even distort/bias the data (people treat it like a board game).
Do you have one or two references for this I could take a look at?
I'm as wary of bias and mistakes in research as "the next person" but if they are measuring brain activity it gets more interesting. To establish that there isn't some validity to this experiment then one would have to show that the brain's reward center can respond while receiving a reward while playing a game but not respond when receiving a reward in a different "non-game" context.
If such research exists or it's been established as fact that this is true, that would seem like a glaring omission from this study. I'd be interested to see that.
Secondarily, you avoided addressing the race question entirely :) I'll assume it is safe to say there is some bias there as well then.
Do you have one or two references for this I could take a look at?
I'm as wary of bias and mistakes in research as "the next person" but if they are measuring brain activity it gets more interesting. To establish that there isn't some validity to this experiment then one would have to show that the brain's reward center can respond while receiving a reward while playing a game but not respond when receiving a reward in a different "non-game" context.
If such research exists or it's been established as fact that this is true, that would seem like a glaring omission from this study. I'd be interested to see that.
Secondarily, you avoided addressing the race question entirely :) I'll assume it is safe to say there is some bias there as well then.