Here's a summary of the "experiment": * hook 24 college students to brain-scanner-majigs. * given them an economic problem.. the better they do, the more t

Here's a summary of the "experiment": * hook 24 college students to brain-scanner-majigs. * given them an economic problem.. the better they do, the more they get rewarded * have some of them do it on their own. * have some of them receive advice from someone who is said to be an expert of economics. The results? Guess what! Different parts of your brain are active when you do something yourself, and when you receive advice. Oh, and also, people tend to follow advice from experts. Here's the amazing scientific breakthrough the research suggests: maybe we can one day make brain-scanners that tell you when you're receiving expert advice or making the decision yourself. Wow! I'd pay $0 for such a thing, because I don't need one: I know when I'm choosing to take a short-cut by following expert advice, and when I'm deciding myself. Following expert advise isn't a bad thing. Think for yourselves what it means to follow expert advice -- to me it's what allows the human race to advance at such a rapid pace. You ask someone with experience, so that you don't have to experience/learn it all yourself. It's the same concept as paying a business to do something that would be inefficient for your own business to do, or figure out how to do. If someone suggests using a company that in the past has had good results, and you use them, and they fail... would you say that your brain was shut off during the decision to use them? No... they just let you down. Plain and simple. But what if someone took brain scans while you made the decision process?? Well, in that case, you could write an article about it in Wired, it seems. This is sensationalized science... and in this case is especially ironic, since people seem to be taking the article headline at face value.