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deathbybolt t1_ivc2l2j wrote

Replying to Shadow_Wolf_X (#458,804)

I agree with this sentiment. I'm not exactly sure why this matters. I feel this applies to most personality or personal health tests. There's a reason why there are ads that pop up constantly asking if you want to download a game app to, "Find out how old your brain is!"

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Yomamma1337 t1_ivchdhd wrote

Replying to Coconutshoe (#458,898)

But those 9 people already know they want to keep living, so by asking it and showing the data, you're not increasing the amount of people that it's relevant to. In other words, it's completely pointless

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Grabthelifeyouwant t1_ivd6v8s wrote

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.

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Sartres_Roommate t1_ive4xcv wrote

Person, man, woman, camera, TV

See, I not only have a healthy brain, I am also a certified genius....believe me!

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BuyNo4013 t1_ivedarr wrote

The 10th is Let’s go, Brandon.

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Snoo_34409 t1_ivfwxeh wrote

Replying to Grabthelifeyouwant (#460,963)

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..

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