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And when people have done a variety of studies, they have learned things such as, when a baby is born, during vaginal delivery you get colonized by the microbes from your mother.
And a variety of other
studies
have shown that the microbial community that lives in and on us helps in development of the immune system, helps in fighting off pathogens, helps in our metabolism, and determining our metabolic rate, probably determines our odor, and may even shape our behavior in a variety of ways.
And so, these
studies
have documented or suggested out of a variety of important functions for the microbial community, this cloud, the non-pathogens that live in and on us.
And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed
studies
of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.
Studies
in model systems like mouse and other animals are also helping do this, but people are now using these technologies because they've gotten very cheap, to study the microbes in and on a variety of people.
And since I study human decision making, I said, I'm going to run some
studies
to find some answers.
And I'm going to share one of these
studies
with you today.
And, systemically, what we will show, across a series of studies, is that you, the passengers, even though the tea was picked for you at random, will end up solving more puzzles than you, the drivers.
And this is true for all the mammal
studies
on empathy is that females have more of it than males.
There's been a range of
studies
that demonstrate the importance of this.
It turns out that previous
studies
show, like this one by Saddler and Good, that peer grading is a surprisingly effective strategy for providing reproducible grades.
The Economist magazine recently wrote an article covering one of the recent
studies
on happiness, and the title was "The Happy, the Unhappy and the Bulgarians."
So MRI
studies
looking at the development of this region have shown that it really undergoes dramatic development during the period of adolescence.
This region is more active in adolescents when they make these social decisions and think about other people than it is in adults, and this is actually a meta-analysis of nine different
studies
in this area from labs around the world, and they all show the same thing, that activity in this medial prefrontal cortex area decreases during the period of adolescence.
And we think that might be because adolescents and adults use a different mental approach, a different cognitive strategy, to make social decisions, and one way of looking at that is to do behavioral
studies
whereby we bring people into the lab and we give them some kind of behavioral task, and I'll just give you another example of the kind of task that we use in my lab.
So this is already evidence of how, in the academic literature, we will see a biased sample of the true picture of all of the scientific
studies
that have been conducted.
So in March, 2012, just one month ago, some researchers reported in the journal Nature how they had tried to replicate 53 different basic science
studies
looking at potential treatment targets in cancer, and out of those 53 studies, they were only able to successfully replicate six.
People will do lots and lots and lots of different studies, and the occasions when it works they will publish, and the ones where it doesn't work they won't.
And I'm a very nerdy doctor, so I read all of the
studies
that I could on this drug.
I read the one study that was published that showed that reboxetine was better than placebo, and I read the other three
studies
that were published that showed that reboxetine was just as good as any other antidepressant, and because this patient hadn't done well on those other antidepressants, I thought, well, reboxetine is just as good.
The classic model is, you get a bunch of
studies
where you know that they've been conducted and completed, and then you go and see if they've been published anywhere in the academic literature.
In fact, there have been so many
studies
conducted on publication bias now, over a hundred, that they've been collected in a systematic review, published in 2010, that took every single study on publication bias that they could find.
And yet, for some reason, if somebody conducts 10
studies
but only publishes the five that give the result that they want, we don't consider that to be research misconduct.
Clinical
studies
form the basis of how we investigate, so if we're going to look at a new drug, right, we test it in people, we draw blood, we do experiments, and we gain consent for that study, to make sure that we're not screwing people over as part of it.
The technology between these two pictures cannot be more different, but the methodology for clinical
studies
has not radically changed over that time period.
Interestingly, what they also showed in a finding that we kept getting in our previous
studies
as well was that one of the strongest influences here is that individuals who are very disgust-sensitive not only are more likely to report being politically conservative, but they're also very much more opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality and pretty much a lot of the socio-moral issues in the sexual domain.
And these are some later
studies
that I'm working on right now that are on the boards, where you can see, in the bottom right-hand corner, with the red, it's actually smaller pieces of thermometal, and it's actually going to, we're trying to make it move like cilia or eyelashes.
And so you see here some early
studies
of blocks, where those holes are actually coming through, and this is before the thermo-bimetal is applied, and this is after the bimetal is applied.
Recent
studies
have shown that in areas where there are no vultures, carcasses take up to three to four times to decompose, and this has huge ramifications for the spread of diseases.
Here's a couple of
studies.
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