posted by jasonbeazell
on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 10:40
I have been telling people to stop believing in the "10% of your brain" statistic for years, but nobody believes me. I was told in class that it was first started when scientists began using cat scans on active brains, while people were laying perfectly still, in a long giant tube, with almost zero sensory input. Those scientists where surprised to find that the brain wasn't doing much of anything, and that somehow got interpreted as 'you only use 10% of your brain...look here...".
Anyway, on with the link:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16241_6-most-frequently-quoted-bullsht-statistics.html?redux