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Psychometrics is fascinating because it might be obvious and clear bullshit, but people are so insistent on classifying and measuring each other that they don't
by Kednicma 6y ago
Psychometrics is fascinating because it might be obvious and clear bullshit, but people are so insistent on classifying and measuring each other that they don't care. The g-factor might not exist, and similarly this new D-factor might not exist.
Honestly, I can't believe that I have to use phrasing like "might" and "might not". The burden of proof for psychometrists is still on them to show that the g-factor is not simply measuring socioeconomic and situational effects. Is there perhaps some correlation between the D-factor and wealth?
This is quite important to the philosophy of law and order. Are people all roughly equivalent in their capacity for crime, evil, and damage to society? Or are some people especially dangerous from birth? Our society needs to assume the former in order to have reasonable carriage of justice, so if it's in fact the latter, then we're operating society in a very wrong way. This is why it's so important for these claims to come with more evidence than just statistical correlation.
Mostly I just want to see an end to psychiatrist-measured thoughtcrime.