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I guess what I am proposing is not really testable. If behavior is the evidence of personality, maybe personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explana
by bitexploder 8y ago
I guess what I am proposing is not really testable. If behavior is the evidence of personality, maybe personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explanation to describe the behavioral trends. I guess the reason I think that: there is evidence of that subatomic particle (personality) but it is very elusive.
- rusk 8y ago> personality is always just a back-filled hand wavy explanation This is what Watson would have said (in a roundabout way) [0]. Perhaps it's not related but he's not considered to have been a very nice guy. [1] [2] Skinner was a lot more fun. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Behaviorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Behaviorism [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#"Little_Albert"_experiment_(1920) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#"Little_Albert"... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Watson#Advertising
- bitexploder 8y agoThanks for sharing — I am not very well read on psychology so I probably operate in ignorance a lot. Never enough time to read and learn everything I wish I could.
- rusk 8y agoThe nice thing about psychology, is understanding a little bit about how the mind works, means you can optimise for increasing your capacity to learn all sorts of other things!