Probably in their mind, but not that I’d care to pay attention; so not obvious to me.
Human beings are diverse. defining a human as “divergent” is meaningless and so fucking dumb.
Psychologists seem to be really bad at statistical analysis; and/or data collection that is representative of the species.
But they’re maybe good at conning mugs to pay them to denigrate people who don’t fit their world view, or confound their predictions.
It’s not meaningless. Some peoples brain work in a completely different way than the majority, and why should we ignore that? It’s very important knowledge to figure out things.
It’s not like it’s a tiny scale of small differences between people. It’s more like 99% being quite similar and then 1% being completely different. That is very significant. Numbers are made up to make a point.
It’s almost like saying let’s not study sociopaths because they are just like everyone else. They aren’t.
Probably in their mind, but not that I’d care to pay attention; so not obvious to me.
Human beings are diverse. defining a human as “divergent” is meaningless and so fucking dumb. Psychologists seem to be really bad at statistical analysis; and/or data collection that is representative of the species. But they’re maybe good at conning mugs to pay them to denigrate people who don’t fit their world view, or confound their predictions.
It’s not meaningless. Some peoples brain work in a completely different way than the majority, and why should we ignore that? It’s very important knowledge to figure out things.
It’s not like it’s a tiny scale of small differences between people. It’s more like 99% being quite similar and then 1% being completely different. That is very significant. Numbers are made up to make a point.
It’s almost like saying let’s not study sociopaths because they are just like everyone else. They aren’t.
“Completely” different, interesting way to put it. Diagnosis must be trivial.