Episode 27: Tweaking and The Packet

Ryoken · **Joined:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:06 pm **Posts:** 308

Robert Bohl wrote:

ashybaby0206 wrote:

its ok. I am just a unique person with my own set of sociological traits that boggle any field, psychology or not.

That's a fairly accurate statement about any individual. Personality theories tend to work best in aggregate.

Bohl speaketh the truth!

I have taken 4 different personality tests, they are all different. :lol:

One kind says I am an authoritarian leader, with another I am a creative empath, with another I am an interpersonal mediator, and another says I am an entreprenuerial free spirit.

I guess it depended on my mood that day.

ashybaby0206 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 5:43 pm

Does that mean you are quad-polar?

kraken · **Joined:** Wed May 27, 2009 2:52 pm **Posts:** 23

I wonder which is more problematic scientifically; personality tests or IQ tests?

"Personality," if I remember my own smattering of intro psych, at least has an accepted definition. Each type of IQ test seems to be predicated on a different one.

Also, I recall reading that most IQ tests contain some cultural bias, and that minority groups in any given culture tend to underperform on them.

I'm going to have to read up on psychometrics if I'm going to hang with this board, it seems.

Robert Bohl · **Joined:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:30 pm **Posts:** 467

Yes, IQ tests are pretty awful predictors of anything other than whether you'll do well on IQ tests. They already weren't well-regarded when I was getting my undergrad in psych and that was like fifteen years ago.

billyilly · **Joined:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:27 pm **Posts:** 47

my iq is like 82 but im still smarter then ryoken.

Ryoken · **Joined:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:06 pm **Posts:** 308

ashybaby0206 wrote:

Does that mean you are quad-polar?

Yes no maybe sure

Darth Krzysztof · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:26 pm

Well, holy crap. I leave the country for a week and come back to... this thread. I'm still not done with the episode, but I'd better mention a few things before the thread gets away from me again:

Ryoken wrote:

Great art doesnt get produced by committee.

I think that depends on who your collaborators are. I think that any solo album by a Beatle can't hold a candle to their best work together, for instance. And I think the Star Wars prequels would have benefited from Gary Kurtz, or Lawrence Kasdan... or just someone willing to say "That's stupid, George. Try this instead."

George wrote:

but women are things

A few of my favorite things.

Ryoken wrote:

1). That is impossible. That is like saying the President doesnt have to control the Executive Branch. If the no one controls the setting, the game is GM-less.

I'd like to add Shock and Prime Time Adventures to Kenmis's list of exceptions.

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