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Quotes About Researchers

Jake Berry, a reporter with the Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire), concluded after a 2013 interview with gun control researchers: "On the whole, Lott's colleagues—both in the media and academia—don't dispute his findings [on gun-free zones].
~ John Lott
By contrast, public health researchers place these same policies near the bottom of their list. Their top policy choice — barring gun sales to people deemed dangerous by a mental health provider with just over a 6 out of 10 rating — is the fifth most valued policy by criminologists (4.88), but their other top policies aren't viewed positively by criminologists.
~ John Lott
The New York Times' pro-gun control results seem to stem from a heavy reliance on public health researchers. Furthermore, the Times only asks questions calling for more government regulations of gun ownership. But the Times' panel was even more supportive of gun control than was the average public health researcher in our survey, so it is hard to believe that there wasn't bias at work in the selection of the panel's membership.
~ John Lott
Years later, lost in the glare of publicity surrounding PARC's accomplishments, the SAIL researchers failed to receive the credit that should have been given to their system.
~ John Markoff
After years of investigating aging populations, researchers' answer to the question of how much is not much. If all you do is walk several times a week, your brain will benefit. Even
~ John Medina
Researchers now believe it won't last out the Anthropocene. "It is likely that reefs will be the first major ecosystem in the modern era to become ecologically extinct
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
There have now been many studies of elite performers—international violinists, chess grand masters, professional ice-skaters, mathematicians, and so forth—and the biggest difference researchers find between them and lesser performers is the cumulative amount of deliberate practice they've had. Indeed, the most important talent may be the talent for practice itself.
~ Atul Gawande
In each case the results were consistent. When, as the researchers put it, "life's fragility is primed," people's goals and motives in their everyday lives shift completely. It's perspective, not age, that matters most.
~ Atul Gawande
Although it's long been known that 67 percent of women's admissions to psychiatric facilities occur during the week immediately prior to menstruation, only recently have researchers begun to consider the effect of PMS on women with mood disorders.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Gibarian belonged to what may well have been the last generation of researchers who had the courage to refer back to the glory days of optimism and were not averse to their own kind of faith, which went beyond the boundaries laid
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Neural nets are nothing new. Researchers have been interested in them on and off at least since the late 1950s. However, until about a decade ago, neural nets were widely viewed as useless: in 1995 one of the founders of ML, Vladimir Vapnik, bet an extravagant dinner that by 2005 "no one in his right mind will use neural nets.
~ Eric A. Posner
The empirical finding that users often freely reveal their innovations has been a major surprise to innovation researchers.
~ Eric von Hippel
It's pretty challenging in a small country to develop a business school with a world-class reputation because of the problem of attracting a critical mass of top-class researchers.
~ John Quelch
You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.
~ Tan Le
Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.
~ Hugh Mackay
My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.
~ Don Kardong
the notion that T. gondii may trigger schizophrenia is supported by recent studies demonstrating that mice that have toxoplasmosis modify their behavior when given antipsychotic medication. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are now testing whether schizophrenics might be helped with antibiotics that fight toxoplasmosis.
~ Sharon Moalem
researchers from the University of Montreal have linked obesity to stress (higher stress levels = higher body weight), but have also found that education and mental outlook can reduce that stress/ weight relationship.
~ Shawn Talbott
The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis "has the shape of a boomerang.
~ Mary Roach
it is indeed possible for humans to copulate in weightlessness. However, they have trouble staying together. The covert researchers discovered that it helped to have a third person to push at the right time in the right place. The anonymous researchers…discovered that this is the way dolphins do it. A third dolphin is always present during the mating process. This led to the creation of the space-going equivalent of aviation's Mile High Club known as the Three Dolphin Club. Stine
~ Mary Roach
The study animal of choice for taste researchers is the catfish,* simply because it has so many receptors. They are all over its skin. "Catfish are basically swimming tongues," says Rawson. It is a useful adaptation for a limbless creature that locates food by brushing up against it; many catfish species feed by scavenging debris on the bottom of rivers.
~ Mary Roach
The spectacular incident of the stones serves as a kind of red herring in this respect. Many researchers have adopted the erroneous belief that where there has been one incident, there must be others. To offer another analogy, this is like dispatching a crew of meteor watchers to Crater National Park because a huge asteroid struck there two million years ago.
~ Stephen King
One can imagine many patients being turned off by the words fecal transplant or, as researchers call it in their academic papers, "fecal microbiota transplantation." The slang used by some doctors ("shit swap") is no better. But Borody, after years of performing this procedure, believes he has finally come up with a less disturbing name. "Yes," he says, "we call it a 'transpoosion.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Algunos investigadores, como Richard Klein, atribuyen dicha revolución cultural a una mutación genética, la cual se habría producido hace unos 50.000 años, que mejoró la capacidad cognitiva en nuestra especie.
~ Jordi Agustí