a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

“Scientists at Lancaster University were inspired to create the testing study after finding out how many people struggled to point out parts of their own body, The Sun reports.

Researchers now want 20,000 to be quizzed to see how much the general public really know about themselves.”

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-body-organs/classify

Arts said:

a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

“Scientists at Lancaster University were inspired to create the testing study after finding out how many people struggled to point out parts of their own body, The Sun reports.

Researchers now want 20,000 to be quizzed to see how much the general public really know about themselves.”

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-body-organs/classify

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

Rule 303 said:

Arts said:

a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

“Scientists at Lancaster University were inspired to create the testing study after finding out how many people struggled to point out parts of their own body, The Sun reports.

Researchers now want 20,000 to be quizzed to see how much the general public really know about themselves.”

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-body-organs/classify

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

Why wouldn’t it be?

kii said:

Rule 303 said:

Arts said:

a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

“Scientists at Lancaster University were inspired to create the testing study after finding out how many people struggled to point out parts of their own body, The Sun reports.

Researchers now want 20,000 to be quizzed to see how much the general public really know about themselves.”

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-body-organs/classify

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

Why wouldn’t it be?

Are you answering a question by asking another question?

kii said:

Rule 303 said:

Arts said:

a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

“Scientists at Lancaster University were inspired to create the testing study after finding out how many people struggled to point out parts of their own body, The Sun reports.

Researchers now want 20,000 to be quizzed to see how much the general public really know about themselves.”

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-body-organs/classify

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

Why wouldn’t it be?

To look beneath the skin is a revelation, but not a pleasant one for lovers.

Rule 303 said:

kii said:

Rule 303 said:

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

Why wouldn’t it be?

Are you answering a question by asking another question?

You have a problem with that?

I think that people should know more about their bodies, maybe if they did we wouldn’t have so many idiots….??

kii said:

Rule 303 said:

kii said:

Why wouldn’t it be?

Are you answering a question by asking another question?

You have a problem with that?

I think that people should know more about their bodies, maybe if they did we wouldn’t have so many idiots….??

By all means, pump them full until they puke information about how it works, what it does, and how to look after it, but as for the anatomy… Better to teach them about the location of the healthy foods, the local walking tracks, the health service providers, the information resources…

There was a segment on a TV program, possibly Brainiac, where they asked people off the street to identify where those parts of the body named after dead white people are. The easiest was Adams Apple. I think Islets of Langerhans were the second to be correctly located.

Eventually, after a day of trying, all locations were identified. But at the end it was almost all guesswork.

There was a segment on a TV program, possibly Brainiac, where they asked people off the street to identify where those parts of the body named after dead white people are. The easiest was Adams Apple. I think Islets of Langerhans were the second to be correctly located, or perhaps that came third, after fallopian tubes.

Eventually, after a day of trying, all locations were identified. But at the end it was almost all guesswork.

A feminist take on this is at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180531-how-womens-body-parts-have-been-named-after-men where the argument is put forward that female body parts named after men should be renamed.

I have to admit that my own knowledge of medicine in general, and anatomy in particular, is pretty woeful.

I’d have trouble accurately locating in the body even where obvious parts are such as the appendix, bile duct, epiglottis, fibula, vena cava and thalamus.

“How many total named parts are there within the human body? American Association of Anatomists has 7,500 listed parts.”

>>a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

The bowel I think.

Rule 303 said:

kii said:

Rule 303 said:

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

Why wouldn’t it be?

Are you answering a question by asking another question?

Why do you want to know if a question was being answered with another question?

FWIW, I think the original question was reasonable.

I didn’t even know I had any Islets of Langerhans, let alone where they are, but I don’t think that ignorance has had any ill effects so far.

The Rev Dodgson said:

I didn’t even know I had any Islets of Langerhans, let alone where they are, but I don’t think that ignorance has had any ill effects so far.

Non-medical people with diabetes sometimes know. They are the body’s factory in which insulin is produced.

Rule 303 said:

Arts said:

a study to find out if people know where shit is in the body

“Scientists at Lancaster University were inspired to create the testing study after finding out how many people struggled to point out parts of their own body, The Sun reports.

Researchers now want 20,000 to be quizzed to see how much the general public really know about themselves.”

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-spiers/where-are-my-body-organs/classify

Is it intrinsically valuable to know where things are in your body?

it is for me, medical people and people in general.. otherwise probably just interest