markrobert
05-04-07, 07:54 AM
You obviously have not worked with scientists. All you have proven is that scientists and you believe their is proof. Simple scientists never take into account the side effects of having SAS in our idiotic world. SAS = Shorter attention span. Can't do well in school, Can't study for long. Can't do repetative tasks, Can't tolerate stupidity ...
Stabile
05-04-07, 09:16 AM
Many of the forum members are scientists, and while we don’t all agree about what science explains AD/HD, it’s pretty clear that the scientific evidence of it’s existence is conclusive.
I’ve never run across SAS that I can remember, but it doesn’t sound comprehensive enough to be considered the cause of our experiences. It seems to fit better as a keyword for a particular class of behavioral artifacts we might observe in certain formal settings.
As such, it wouldn’t really explain anything, in the scientific sense, but rather present a focus for further work that potentially might explain why such behavioral artifacts arise.
Could you point us to some sources that might clarify the context a bit better?
markrobert
05-04-07, 09:31 AM
sas is english. not scientific jargon. people have different length attention spans. use a wrist watch or count verbally. you can put on a lab coat and pretend you're a scientist who gets everything right, then pretend again people with the shortest are all suffering from a desease. no wonder we are all depressed which shows up as abnormalites which are confused with sas.
SAS = Shorter attention span. its english not scientific jargon!
Stabile
05-04-07, 01:57 PM
sas is english. not scientific jargon. people have different length attention spans. use a wrist watch or count verbally. you can put on a lab coat and pretend you're a scientist who gets everything right, then pretend again people with the shortest are all suffering from a desease. no wonder we are all depressed which shows up as abnormalites which are confused with sas.
SAS = Shorter attention span. its english not scientific jargon!
Regardless of that or your ideas about scientific investigation, there's not much specific about the conceptual entity SAS out there that I can find.
The idea that such a thing as an ‘attention span’ exists is questionable in itself; I would be happy to go into a bit of detail about that, if you’re interested.
Judging its length would seem to imply at least some risk of placing a value judgment on the result.
I doubt that you can make the direct connection to your own attention span (no doubt so apparent to you) in a way that extends generally to all of us. That’s where science comes in, but again, I’d like to see it first.
As mentioned, we have an entirely different model that works at least as well, and also seems to extend to others in a simple way. We’re not doubting your seriousness, but we’d like to be able to interpret your ideas in a general context, meaningful to all of us…
markrobert
05-04-07, 04:39 PM
your kidding again. your intelligence is determined by how many memories your brain can put together at once. think about it. a short segment of memory from any sense is absolutley worthless. i.e. look at a bottle. with only a picture of the bottle in your head you wouldn't understand its color, purpose, distance, size, that it was called a bottle etc. i repeat, your kidding again.