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A Grain of Salt Can Be Your Friend

Submitted by Anonymous on August 29, 2010 - 10:50am.

Yes, there's a lot of misinformation out there, and when I hear "percent" I become suspicious. My favorite "scientific" fact: "82 percent of communication is through body language."

Often, it's a good idea to think (or ask) "How do you know that?" "Under what conditions?"

Just remember, 90 percent of what you hear is not fact, but opinion, misinformation, or incomplete information. And Catherine the Great died having sex with a horse.

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Susan R. Barry, Ph.D., is a professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College and the author of Fixing My Gaze (June, 2009).

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