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Hah, this reminds me of zodiac signs, which every single non-scientist female friend of mine seems to take very seriously (not sure about male friends since thi
by oefrha 7y ago
Hah, this reminds me of zodiac signs, which every single non-scientist female friend of mine seems to take very seriously (not sure about male friends since this topic seems to never come up). No wonder it sells.
- atheistnsingle 7y agoI have no idea how many of my male friends are into this but as a man I check "don't believe in astrology" or similar in Ok Cupid as a search filter and 4 people out of how ever many thousands of people should be out there appear. It's super depressing.
- epx 7y agoAnd the zodiac signs are also divided in 4 groups (air, fire, earth, water) so it seems the idea of dividing people in 4 quadrants is pretty old.
- type0 7y agoWhat idiot-colors do you think it would corresponds to? fire - red water - blue earth - green air - yellow pretty sure it's "scientific"
- epx 7y agoI don't know, the only thing I remember is water ~= Pisces ~= melancholic ~= <some color>
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoI've seen an analysis of the phenomenon where the four elements correspond to 4 major neurotransmitters, with the traits associated with having a lot of one element being pretty close to having a lot of the corresponding neurotransmitter. Maybe there really is a potentially useful means of categorizing people there.
- flingo 7y agoHave you tried to be a scientist yourself and getting some numbers to test your hypothesis?
- oefrha 7y agoI am a scientist myself but unfortunately I have neither the time nor interest to test every little hypothesis of mine, especially outside my field of expertise.
- tim333 7y agoUnlike zodiac signs there probably is some reality to catogrising people as say people oriented or analytic in their typical behaviour in the manner of the Idiots book.