Observational Error: Stories about the overlooked
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Part 1: Neuroscientist Qi Lin struggles to connect with friends and colleagues when she can’t escape her scientific mindset. Part 2: When defense attorney Michael Perlin interviews individuals who were not competent to stand trial, he makes a startling discovery. Hailing from Guangzhou (with the best dim sum!), China, Qi Lin is currently working in Dr. Daniela Schiller's lab as a lab manager and investigate the flexibility of emotional memory and the neural basis of social cognition. Qi graduated from New York University with a bachelor degree in psychology in 2015 December. She has a picture of her brain (sagittal) attached on her refrigerator door. Michael Perlin is a Professor of Law Emeritus at New York Law School (NYLS), founding director of NYLS’s Online Mental Disability Law Program, and founding director of NYLS’s International Mental Disability Law Reform Project in its Justice Action Center. He is also the co-founder of Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates. His hobbies include fishing, birding, playing the clarinet, opera, and the music of Bob Dylan. Michael Perlin's story was produced as part of a partnership with Springer Storytellers. Find out more at www.beforetheabstract.com/
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt right. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly. and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true |
| 0:25.8 | personal stories about science. This week, we're bringing you two stories about observational errors. |
| 0:31.1 | A neuroscientist struggles to connect with her friends, and a lawyer interviewing prisoners |
| 0:35.1 | who have been deemed unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity makes a startling discovery. |
| 0:40.3 | Our first story is from Chi Lin, who's recorded in July 2016 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:45.9 | The theme was mistakes. |
| 0:50.2 | So I'm the kind of person who try to avoid any sort of conflict in all occasions, as you can tell from my smile. |
| 0:58.0 | But then three years ago, in one of my philosophy classes, I had infuriated a rump of my classmates and totally out of my expectation. |
| 1:08.0 | In that class, we were discussing Kafka's metamorphosis and self-identity. |
| 1:15.2 | Very exciting topic. |
| 1:16.7 | My classmates were all very, very excited about it, and they just went back and forth, |
| 1:21.6 | back and forth, almost half an hour about why a beetle and a human can have the same |
| 1:26.1 | self-identity and why the family members just rarely accept this fact. |
| 1:30.8 | And sitting there, looking at all this intense debate, I was thinking, |
| 1:36.9 | hmm, this discussion is not leading to any fruitful answer. |
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