Grabthelifeyouwant t1_ivd6v8s wrote on November 7, 2022 at 2:24 AM

Since no one seems to actually be looking at the paper before posting garbage:

>we investigated people's willingness and reasons to—or not to—take a hypothetical brain health test to learn about risk of developing a brain disease

This is looking at hypothetical future tests which are predictive of brain diseases like Alzheimer's. This is not about sham online iq tests.

>Conclusion: High public interest in brain health and brain health testing in certain segments of society, coupled with an increase of commercial tests entering the market, is likely to put pressure on public health systems to inform the public about brain health testing in years to come.

The primary take away from this paper by it's authors is to note that society will likely need more testing capacity than one might first suspect.

There's more to the paper than just that; they also note factors that increase or decrease likelihood to be willing to test, such as whether the test could inform you of future untreatable diseases, among other things.

Epithemus t1_ivebm48 wrote on November 7, 2022 at 10:08 AM

I'd be interested to see if the head trauma i got from boxing or low doorways affected me.

Snoo_34409 t1_ivfx2y6 wrote on November 7, 2022 at 6:02 PM

well, since you indicated you have a trauma already, its safe to say its affecting you in some way or the other.

Snoo_34409 t1_ivfwxeh wrote on November 7, 2022 at 6:01 PM

brain health parameters like alzheimers is cool but does it also measure the volatility of a persons amoral intentions? possible socio/psychopathic tendencies? i would be interested in reading my own measurements in such fields, not to assume i am to be designated as such but to learn how the algorithms in this tests judge the current human society on these parameters, as they change from eon to eon in what is acceptable behaviour and what is not.

quoted from the text itself:

Twenty seven thousand five hundred and ninety people from 81 countries participated in the survey, mostly from Europe (98%)

this seems rather concerning as its skews the test results and willingness to participate to a certain societal structure not applied across the globe. i understand that the sample basis had to have come out from somewhere but the fact that it mostly originates from a single continent limits the applicability for wholescale publication towards all nationalities as only 2.8% participated outside of europe..