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Am following this topic from another thread on HN today about soundscapes and binaural beats, and what is the theoretical framework behind it, or is it just sympathetic magic? I was in a meeting yesterday about the truth and reconciliation stuff going on in Canada right now, and the first hour of the meeting was given to people who were sharing their experiences of residential schools by telling stories about them. T…
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"Their heart rates change in unison" seems like a perfectly fine interpretation of "their heart rates are synchronized" that matches the observations. It is in fact what I expected when I read the headline. Maybe the headline could have been even more explicit, but I don't think it's intentionally deceiving.
I find your two quoted lines as vastly different. The first is accurate and the second is not. Synchronized means to happen at the same time. For a rate to be synchronized, I expect the same rate value at the same time (each person at say 65bpm). If the rate change is in sync, I expect the same rate of change value for each person (everyone is slowing their heart rate at 2bpm per minute). In unison means at the same…
Fake headline. This is not the usual meaning of the word “synchronize”. As many other commenters here point out, this makes the story a non-story. Strictly speaking, the headline is true in that the heart rates “synchronize”, but not the heart beats , which I would think that most people would mis-read the headline as.
Not sure we can fault them if it is a justified true headline but we expect that 'other people' can't read. Per the Wason selection task this is a great experiment to run, because if it isn't true then that's strong evidence many more complex theories relating to sync are likely to be false.
A more apt title might say "the changes in their heart rates synchronize".
Fake headline. This is not the usual meaning of the word “synchronize”. As many other commenters here point out, this makes the story a non-story. Strictly speaking, the headline is true in that the heart rates “synchronize”, but not the heart beats , which I would think that most people would mis-read the headline as.
Yeah the title had me very curious about how that would work
For an intuitive example, see this Veritasium video, starting at around 4:50: https://youtu.be/t-_VPRCtiUg?t=292.
This happens in crowds of people, for an example, the London Millenium pedestrian bridge wobble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge,_London#Reso....
I was initially curious how this could happen with a heart rate; I could imagine some shared feedback mechanism for walking, or breathing, but a shared feedback for heart rate was surprising. Perhaps if they were touching, and there was some electrical or pressure-sensitive pulse? Disappointing that it's merely the delta between exciting and dull parts of the stories.
Am following this topic from another thread on HN today about soundscapes and binaural beats, and what is the theoretical framework behind it, or is it just sympathetic magic? I was in a meeting yesterday about the truth and reconciliation stuff going on in Canada right now, and the first hour of the meeting was given to people who were sharing their experiences of residential schools by telling stories about them. T…
Maybe related to that? In any case the human body and mind are wonderfully mysterious
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hyperscans-show-h...
A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
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This sounds like something straight out of Futurama
Fake headline. This is not the usual meaning of the word “synchronize”. As many other commenters here point out, this makes the story a non-story. Strictly speaking, the headline is true in that the heart rates “synchronize”, but not the heart beats , which I would think that most people would mis-read the headline as.
A silly study? But think of the use cases! The Wristband monitors everyone's heat rate and knows the correct response to each media input. "It seems you have stopped paying attention to your targeted advertising. Shall I replay your ads now?"
Shame such interesting science inspires such dystopian machinations.
"People synchronize their bodies when absorbed in attention." --> "How can schools use this to make sure students are paying attention?"
Please don't.