Dancers are different

[clevermanka]

Found on the bellydancing community: Study suggests that dancers are genetically different than other humans. Interesting. I don't like the implications that people who are natural dancers are somehow more spiritual than humanity at large--I think that's crap, personally--but it does let off the hook all those poor souls who might feel bad about their two left feet. It's ok, folks, it's genetic.

EDIT: a couple comments lead me to believe that people think I'm taking this study seriously. Um, no, not so much. Funny and interesting, yes, but not more than that. Hence my use of the word "crap" and the little ha-ha joke there at the end.

Comments

[seymoure.livejournal.com]

Remember that the DNA that they use to fingerprint us is less than 2%. The rest of us is the same. We will always be more alike than we are different.

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

You know, I really hate reading news reports about scientific studies...because they generally don't report results correctly or completely.

If these are the study results, this is one truly skewed paradigm. Seratonin regulates a shit ton of things, not just spirituality. These researchers went looking for a link and found what they were looking for.


D.

[lionsaoi.livejournal.com]

Not really commenting on the study because, well, eh. But, I find the need to reduce personality traits to a biochemical reaction really disturbing. (Yes, I believe in a soul; not everything is determined by electrons and chemical reactions!)More than anything, I wonder what the end result of all this will be. I appreciate (and enjoy) science for science sake (if you will), but the research ends up patented and applied commercially. How is knowing where "dance" or "athletic" gene have commercial applications - or, should I write, commercial applications that aren't frivolous?

I read stuff like that and shudder, because it just *screams* "make a designer baby".

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Nah, I knew you thought it was crap. I was simply reacting to exactly the sort of crap that it is.


D.

Take that, you Baptists!

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Dancers are more spiritual. Neener neener neener.

[professormass.livejournal.com]

Gamers are more spiritual. Programmers, even moreso.

Therefore, I have your lithe, sexy, bellydancing ass beat with my nerdoriffic genetics.

I have a study to back this up. Somewhere.

Yes.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Heh. Heh. You said "back this up."

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I didn't get that there was any implication of More Spiritual, but of a different experience of the spiritual.
The only implication I read out of the gene markers was that dancers may have a more non-verbal ceremonial sense of communication and experience of spirituality.
Duh. Isn't that what draws people who enjoy dancing to the experience?

It took a study to figure that out?
We dance because we like the way it feels.
I'm clearly in the wrong business.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Bellydancers have more midichlorians.